LinkOptimizer for InDesign

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes–an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in. All you have to do to win is…

• Become a Quark VS InDesign​.com mem­ber (free), and;
• Throw your name into the give­away hat at the bot­tom of this page.

That’s all. No pur­chase or song and dance nec­es­sary. A win­ner will be cho­sen at ran­dom from those who enter on this page.

This con­test has end­ed. On 2007-12-02 we gave
LinkOptimizer 3.0 from Zevrix Solutions
To Jeff D. of Huntington Beach, CA usa

Congratulations, Jeff! Get some prizes for your­self on our Contests & Giveaways page.

The InDesign Plug-In We Gave Away This Time

LinkOptimizer 3.0 (Mac Only)
InDesign Plug-In from Zevrix Solutions

LinkOptimizer is a util­i­ty for Adobe InDesign that allows you to reduce the size of linked images by elim­i­nat­ing exces­sive image data.

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%.

New in LinkOptimizer 3.0:

• Process images placed mul­ti­ple times in InDesign document.
• Run Photoshop Actions dur­ing processing.
• Detailed Settings Summary in the main window.

Dramatic Improvements
Depending on the size of your job, the space sav­ings from opti­mis­ing the image sizes can be amaz­ing. A remark­able exam­ple is a glossy auto mak­er brochure which went from 6 GB to 500 MB. It’s twelve times less than the orig­i­nal size.

How LinkOptimizer will help me?
LinkOptimizer will help you save valu­able stor­age space, time and reduce pro­duc­tion costs in a vari­ety of ways by reduc­ing the size of images linked to your InDesign document:

• Saving valu­able hard dri­ve and back­up stor­age space 
• Increasing speed of print­ing of your doc­u­ment and cre­at­ing PDF files 
• Saving valu­able time when trans­fer­ring your job to ser­vice providers, pub­li­ca­tions or any oth­er out­side sources: 
  • reduc­ing time of com­press­ing your job to StuffIt or .zip archives 
  • speed­ing up FTP or e‑mail transfer 
  • reduc­ing time of CD burn­ing or copy­ing your job to remov­able media
• reduc­ing the cost of your job through faster pro­cess­ing by ser­vice providers 
• speed­ing up your over­all job turnaround