VectorCat Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I'm working in Mac Publisher on a document built in iPad Designer. I got a warning about having a lot of embedded images and would I like to save size by linking them instead. I OK'd that, thinking it would automagically know where all the pics are.. I'm apprehensive that I'll have to do a brute-force 'manual' relinking of some 60 images - arranged in 5 or 6 sub-folders because that's how I wanted to group them. Embedded images bring along no information about their identity and location once embedded? Thank you for any wisdom on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 7 hours ago, VectorCat said: Embedded images bring along no information about their identity and location once embedded? Yes, the program knows where the embedded images came from, and Linking them (via that prompt or manually via the Resource Manager) should have no problems. If you're having a problem, it may be because you're using two different machines and the file paths will almost certainly be somewhat different between the two machines. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 So..here’s my experience with that on an M1 Mini with 8GB of RAM… I chose the option to Link, and was presented with a Dialogue box…I believe that I “pointed” Publisher to the parent folder where all of the sub-folders of images to be linked reside. Hit OK. Nothing visual happened*, so I assumed it was a fail. After some internal grousing, I decided to manually re-link the 60 images using Resource Manager, only to find that all of the images said, “Linked.” So, if I’m reading it correctly, the 60 images were de-embedded and linked in less than a blink of an eye. ”Gobsmacked” seems an appropriate word… *meaning, no visual feedback indicating success, failure, or progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 3 hours ago, VectorCat said: *meaning, no visual feedback indicating success, failure, or progress Rather like when you save a file, you choose a location and hit the save button. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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