LinkOptimizer 4.0.1

LinkOptimizer 4.0.1 is a useful software letting you dramatically reduce the size of InDesign job, cut down on processing time and reduce production costs.

LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to:

• reduce the size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data
• perform essential image adjustments, such as color conversion and sharpening
• convert file formats.

It will automatically reduce the image resolution, scale and crop the images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in the InDesign document and the target resolution specified, and reimport them to InDesign at 100%.

Major Benefits:

1. Save hours - and even days - of optimizing images manually
2. Save gigabytes of disk space
3. Reduce output time (for image-rich projects, the time can be reduced from hours to minutes)
4. Speed up job transfer to outside sources
5. Reduce job cost through faster processing by service providers
6. Speed up overall job turnaround

Major Features:

1. Detailed link info [NEW]: LinkOptimizer lists all the document links in an interactive table complete with the detailed link info, optimization actions, ignored links and resizable preview. You can choose which links to process and view selected links in the InDesign document.
2. Backup and relinking [enhanced]: With LinkOptimizer, your files are always safe  you can either backup original files, or relink to optimized ones leaving originals untouched. In addition, you can optimize links for external use, such as web design, without relinking them back to InDesign at all.
3. Run Photoshop Actions: Specify Photoshop Actions to run automatically on each image during processing.
4. History: The detailed logs [NEW]: LinkOptimizer logs every processing step into History which holds the detailed log for each processed InDesign file, so if an error happens you can easily track it down. The logs are tabdelimited text files so you can easily use them with your existing databases if required.
5. General
   • Process specific range of pages of InDesign document.
   • Save current settings as presets.
   • The detailed settings summary.
6. Optimize Resolution
   • The option to optimize only resolution without resizing the images. This will allow, for example, to optimize several documents of similar design at once by optimizing one of them.
   • Toggle cropping.
   • Allow upsampling (i.e., optimizing of images with effective resolution lower than the target resolution).
   • Specify Photoshop resampling methods for downsampling/upsampling.
   • The option to process all links in the document regardless of the resolution settings (for example, LinkOptimizer will convert colors of all required links regardless of their resolution).
7. Convert image formats
   • Convert images into desired file formats, for example JPEG > TIFF, PNG > PSD, Photoshop EPS > TIFF etc. Specify Photoshop conversion settings directly from LinkOptimizer.
   • The option to resave all JPEGs in Photoshop (so, for example, digcam images don't present the Save As dialog on saving).
8. Processing
   • Nonstop processing: various warnings don't interrupt the processing anymore  all errors are logged to History and displayed in the Links window once the processing is done.
   • Flipped images are now processed.
   • Photoshop doesn't warn about mismatching color workspace/profile on file opening anymore.
   • Most of special characters in file name don't cause errors anymore.
   • Specify Photoshop resampling methods for downsampling/upsampling.

Requirements:

• Adobe InDesign CS-CS4
• Adobe Photoshop CS-CS4
• Mac OS X 10.4.2 - 10.5