We’ve got a large indesign file that several people are dipping in and out of on several machines, to do this we’ve got the
indd
file and the/images
folder that it references in a shared Dropbox folder.This all works fine, BUT all the image links are broken, when i look at the paths for the links they are using the absolute paths so they are something like this
User/sam/Dropbox/lorem/images/image.jpg
But on other peoples machines they A) have a different name so their path looks like this
User/John..
or they dont have their Dropbox folder in their user root directory.Seeing as the
indd
file also resides in the/lorem
folder is there a way to get indesign to use relative paths to the images so instead of that long absolute string it would be something like/images/image.jpg
We are using indesign CC – v.2015.1
Answer
Unfortunately no.
InDesign (and Illustrator) first look in the document folder. If the links aren’t there, only absolute paths are used.
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Source : Link , Question Author : sam , Answer Author : Scott