All links are within document folder
This check looks at the location of links on your computer and flags up if they are NOT contained within the same folder as the InDesign document.
‘Links’ are made to the original files of images that have been placed into the InDesign document; they might also, less commonly, be text files.
InDesign can cope with links from anywhere on your computer; for example, your Desktop, your Dropbox or Google Drives, or on remote file servers, and this approach is fine while the document is in progress. However, once the document is ready for output, you should gather together all links items into a single folder within the same folder as the InDesign document, otherwise images will almost certainly become unlinked or get lost, preventing reuse in the future.
- Good InDesign housekeeping means always knowing where your linked files are!
You can fix the problem above by moving the linked files and choosing to relink in InDesign’s Links panel menu.
Alternatively, it is possible to Package a document (File menu > Package…). This brings together copies of all linked items in a 'Links' folder together with a copy of the InDesign document into a new folder with the document’s name. You can also choose whether to create a PDF and IDML file, (which can be opened by previous versions of InDesign).
