LinkOptimizer 4.0

LinkOptimizer 4.0 is a simple and effective tool which works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to reduce size of InDesign image links, convert image colors and formats. It also can perform essential image adjustments, such as color conversion and sharpening, and convert file formats.

LinkOptimizer allows to dramatically reduce the size of InDesign job, cut down on processing time and reduce production costs.

Major Solutions:

• Reduce link size / Optimize resolution: LinkOptimizer 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%.  
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• Edit images: Automatically perform essential final image adjustments:
• • convert colors to CMYK, RGB and Grayscale,
  • apply sharpening filters,
  • merge layers, delete hidden ones, flatten image.  
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• Convert image formats: Automatically convert linked images into desired file formats, for example JPEG > TIFF, PNG > PSD, Photoshop EPS > TIFF etc. Specify Photoshop conversion settings directly from LinkOptimizer.  
  
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Major Benefits:

1. Save hours and even days  of optimizing images manually
2. Save gigabytes of disk space
3. Reduce output time (for imagerich 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

Enhancements:

• General
• • Process specific range of pages of InDesign document.
  • Save current settings as presets.
  • The detailed settings summary.
• 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).
• 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).  
• Backup and relinking
• • Optimize InDesign document's duplicate instead of the original.
  • The option to automatically save optimized files in a folder inside the InDesign document folder.
  • Optimize images for external use without relinking to InDesign (for example, for web design).
  • Easily compose variable names of files and folders using tokens.
• Detailed links info
• • LinkOptimizer lists all the document links in an interactive table complete with the detailed link info, optimization actions, ignored links, processing errors and resizable preview. You can choose which links to process and view selected links in the InDesign document.  
• History: The detailed logs
• • 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.  
• 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