I want to select images from the search results and insert them into my document
I want the images to be included via their permanent URL in the DAM
Basically my DAM will act as a central repository for all my images and I don’t want them to be duplicated in InDesign. Is this possible through a plugin?
If it is possible what are some resources that would help me in implementing this? Any companies or freelancers specialized in this kind of development?
For such a basic version you might also display metadata from the image XMP - copyright, captions. If your DAM has own ways of structuring e.g. similar to a folder view, also consider a browser in addition to textual search.
Should be doable within a few weeks when you can reuse some snippets from the web UI of the DAM. I think my first such plugin (using C++ more than a decade ago) took me two months. The images were copied though to a shared volume to allow for further “optimisation”, think of arbitrary Photoshop changes that you want to keep local to the particular use in the InDesign document. Nowadays InDesign should handle http/https links out of the box, but keep in mind that each original image may have several derived copies.
You’re right. My “should” should have been “should * " with the annotation " * I haven’t checked the recent cloud-related additions, current focus is on fonts”.
Duh, just tried a drag & drop from Safari and it still just added the URL to the hit location’s text.