Hi, everybody. David Dilling for Markzware and we get a lot of
bad files in here and a lot of them are
big, like 2, 3, 4, 5,
6 gigabytes and I was wondering what's
going on, here. So, I did a little research and,
basically, the problem is people are
embedding the links from their
images or their graphics. Now, vector graphics, small
things, aren't such a big deal, if you
embed those, even a few images. But, if
we're talking about 3, 400-page
documents, even a 50-page document, a
lot of images, well, it can be a huge
problem. And that's what we're seeing. So,
when you have, you know, when you add your
images in, you know, you can add an image
box, or drag and drop it, however you want
to do it, doesn't really matter.
Once you have your image, what people are doing,
they're taking an image and they're, you know,
going over here. And, you know,
we can see where it is, down here, and all that.
It's a linked file, a link to
graphic, under the Links panel, here.
Now, if you just control click, or right click on Windows,
you can go Embed Link.
Now, if you do that, you'll see you get this little
image, here. Right? And, you know, we can do
that with this one, too. We can then link,
etc., etc. And, if we save this out, it's a
bigger document, here, with some missing
images. You save this out, now.
I drop this file on FlightCheck, which is our
preflight and packaging tool stand alone,
which checks Illustrator, InDesign,
Photoshop, PDFs, Quark, you know, JPEGs,
PNGs. You name it, it'll check it.
It’s a great quality assurance tool to use.
(FlightCheck eagle screeches.) And we see all of our
fonts, here, and, you know, image problems, effective
resolution on a range, etc. And you see the
embedded files went with no name, because that's
what internally is going to happen, if you create a
PDF out of this. But we'll see the
name, down here. And we see it's a, you
know, the type of file it was, an image.
And we see an Illustrator EPS, the logo.
That's the one we have linked
and that’s okay. CMYK. This RGB may or may not be,
may or may not be a problem. It's quite a
big file and it's stored. So, it's adding
a lot of, you know, meat to that file that’s
not needed. And, once again, if you
have, you know, hundreds of thousands of these
files embedded, or stored, as we
called it, that's a big problem. So, this is a big
no-no, because, when you go to
collect your job, you want to have
available these for collection. In
InDesign, that would be called packaging.
And that's basically the quick tip of the day.
Do not embed your images,
if you have a lot of them. You know, if you just have a
few, it’s not a big deal. Alright.
And then you don't have to be victim of
having to use our “bad file”
recovery service, which… Here, you see FlightCheck, like we
just showed you, for pre-flight and
packaging. Here's our File Recovery Service,
which, you know, works
70-75% of the time, maybe
even a bit more. It depends, like it goes…
The moon cycles. You never know when it's
gonna work better or not, but, basically,
you don't want to have to use this.
You don't want to have to fix these files.
And a lot of bad files come in, are quite hefty.
Well, I'd say it's in the top three.
There are bigger problems, and I'll
cover those in another video. That's a
tip. Don't embed those images. Leave a
live link to the file. And, by the way, you
can unembed, by, once again, control-click on a
Mac, or just right-click and
Unembed Link. And, you know, have the link back to the original…
back to the original file. Right? So, that's the
way to have a link to your images and
not embed the file. So, David Dilling for
Markzware, wishing you a
fantastic day! And stay tuned for more
tips, later.