Efficient way to have multipe instances of the same image?

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May 24, 2019
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Hi! i work with multiple instances of a image, mostly patterns, and i had hope that making the image a symbol and use multiple symbol instances instead of multiple image instances could reduce the file size, but actually, and contrary to my logic, the file size is almost twice than the file with multiple instances of the image. Is there a way to use the same image multiple times and don't have them as individual objects?

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Make the image symbol Static instead of Dynamic to prevent the multiplication of the images.

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

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Make the image symbol Static instead of Dynamic to prevent the multiplication of the images.

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Anonymous

Oh! thanks!! you just save couple gigabytes haha

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Good to hear that helped!

You can also vote here and hope the problem gets fixed:

Regression: Illustrator CC saves each instance of symbol in .ai file separately – Adobe Illustrator Feedback

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Marcasteleon,

If you File>Place the image with Link ticked (unembedded image), you can just copy away; provided you have Create PDF Compatible file ticked (with that ticked you will have a full PDF version with embedded images included)..

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Anonymous

Hi! yes, i know you could use linked images but when you have to send or move files between computers it can be a headache haha anyway, thanks for take time to answer!

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

For my part you are welcome, Marca.

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