![]() I have of course made sure that the file I link to is actually there in the folder-in two ways. But that’s not particularly practical when I need perhaps 60 or 70 out of about 2,500 images in that folder. Once I select the image and hit “OK”, it works fine: the image shows up. It just gives me a “Find file” dialog box where I can then select the image in the file list. If I give an absolute path to a folder on the OS drive (i.e., /Users/username/Blablabla/.), it works fine, too.īut if I link to the file on the network drive, in the format file:///Volumes/NetworkDrive/CoverImages/9781234567890.ext, InDesign does not find the file. If I give a relative path to a file in the same folder where the XML file is, or a subfolder, then it works fine. At least not with files on this network drive. That’s as much description as I can find anywhere, but that does not work. Image is on another volume (server/network drive): file:///Volumes/VolumeName/RestOfPath ![]() Image on hard drive, absolute path name: file:///Users/username/ Image is in a subfolder: file:///images/image.jpg Image is in same folder as XML file: file:///image.jpg (or file:image.jpg) Various places online, I have found references (like page 6 of this PDF by Cari Jansen) that say that InDesign expects the href path to be formatted as follows (leaving out the href= bit and the quoting): I then import the XML file into an InDesign (CS6) document to layout the actual catalogue.Įverything about this work flow works perfectly and very elegantly- except for the fact that InDesign seemingly refuses to find any image whose href path leads to somewhere not on the local hard drive. I work for a small publishing company, and we regularly create catalogues, brochures, etc., where we feature various hand-picked subsets of our available titles.īased on the titles that are to be included in a catalogue, I create (in PHP, on my localhost, so very flexibly) an XML file with all the metadata of each book, including a link to the cover of the book.Īll our cover images, named by the ISBN of the book in question, are located in a folder on a network drive that I log on to via Samba (authenticating with user name and password) and then mount on the desktop of my working machine (a Mac running OS X Yosemite).
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