Documents separated (like distributed, or on USB sticks etc) would automatically un-link when "separated" form the library- the same way linked/placed files already do. We already do this. All I'm saying is basically have a placed .ai only with dynamic editing features. Everything needed, UI-wise, is already in place. You could then re-link these "separated" files in the links panel later on. Or, maybe it could go via the cloud- you can already put artwork there, AND it already updates across multiple documents! Yay! Except.. you can't use those dynamically.. nor can you unlink it to get the vectors natively in the document (it seems you can only place it).. that's why it's so frustrating.. The feature literally almost exists, they just didn't go the last two steps to make it actually usable. All the needed features and the UI for this is present, it's just not applied in a way that you can actually use it and I think this is nuts. But, the problem with doing this via the cloud is the library is hard to organise- Like, if you had 200 icons you were using for one client, and another ~100 icons for a different project, then, that'd make your "libraries" panel become swamped because it seems to have no subfolders or so. So, if going the cloud route and not the "handle it like a placed .ai only with dynamic editing", that would need to be addressed also.
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