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Updating customer's low-resolution FPO image Using the customer's placed low-resolution image as a guide (left), size and scan the artwork (center). But if you simply relink to your high-resolution image, any transforms are also applied to the new image when it is imported (far right). Position, scale, and rotation are incorrect as a result. Here, the customer enlarged the image and rotated it slightly clockwise, and the transparency has been scanned to match. Placing the high-resolution scan in the same frame maintains those transformations, resulting in an oversized, rotated image. It will be necessary to manually remove the rotation and scaling, and reposition the image to match the customer's art. Consequently, you must manually position your scan to match the scale, crop, and position of the customer's FPO scan. Here's an easy method for accomplishing this: 1. Create a new frame containing your high-resolution scan (or place the image in the page and allow it to create its own frame). 2. Set the frame's opacity to 50%. 3. Position the frame over the one containing the customer's FPO image. 4. Rotate, reposition, and scale the frame until its content lines up with the customer's image. The Free Transform tool ( ) makes this easy. 5. Once the high-resolution image matches the FPO image, select the high-resolution image with the Direct Selection tool, and copy the image to the clipboard. 6. Switch to the Selection tool and delete the frame, leaving the original customer frame in position. 7. Select the customer frame (you don't have to delete the image) and choose Edit > Paste Into. InDesign replaces the customer's FPO image with your high-resolution scan. Embedded artwork Support artwork is usually linked in InDesign files. However, you may find that a customer has embedded artwork in the file rather than linking to it, and has not supplied a copy of the original graphic. (To embed an image, select it, and then choose Embed File from the Links panel menu.) When you preflight a file that contains embedded graphics, the original graphic name is represented by "(Embedded)", but the graphic's page and type are still listed. The Links panel, however, lists the graphic's original name. While embedding usually doesn't cause problems in imaging, it increases the file size of the InDesign document, and it makes it more challenging to edit the artwork. The artwork must be unembedded in order to be edited in an external application such as Photoshop or Illustrator. Select the name of the link in the Links panel, and choose Unembed File from the panel menu. You'll be asked if you want to link to the original file; click No (because you don't have the original file) and navigate to the folder where you'd like to save the unembedded file. InDesign extracts the embedded art, saves an external file with the correct name, and updates the link to the newly created file. You can now edit the graphic as necessary. Note that the result is identical to the original placed graphic before embedding-there is no change in resolution or color space. It's simply been extracted from the InDesign file and saved to disk. Embedded Images An icon indicates that a graphic is embedded in the InDesign file (left). To edit the graphic, you must first unembed it and save it as an external file. Select the link in the panel, and choose Unembed File from the panel menu. Click No in the dialog box that appears (right). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 26