- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Importing and sizing graphics
- Editing placed pictures
- Working with dropped backgrounds
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
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Review answers
Select the graphic, and then choose Window > Links to see the graphic’s filename highlighted in the Links panel. The graphic appears in the Links panel if it was imported by choosing File > Place or dragged into the layout from Explorer (Windows), Finder (macOS), or Bridge.
Clipping paths are vector drawn paths that create a crisp, sharp edge. Photoshop images that use transparency to remove the background create a soft, blended edge using soft-edge brushes to paint away the background.
Updating a file’s link simply uses the Links panel to update the onscreen representation of a graphic so that it represents the most recent version of the original. Relinking a selected graphic uses the Place command to allow you to insert a different graphic in place of the selected graphic. You might do this, for example, to replace a PNG graphic with an identical graphic in the JPEG format.
In the Links panel, make sure that no alert icon is displayed for the file. If an alert icon is displayed, you can simply select the link and click the Update Link button. If the file has been moved, you must locate it again using the Relink button.
Press Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (macOS) and drag to scale either larger or smaller.
With the Selection tool, press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and drag to the desired location. A copy of the object is created at the new location and the original object remains in place.
