Illustrator version 29.5

Question

Hello, why have you altered the function crop an RGB image, with an icc-profil, to do this? This is, in my eyes, totally wrong.

The embedded version of the image is in CMYK without icc-profil, when saved as a PDF. The result of this conversion to CMYK is a fault, and the result when offset printing the PDF is going to be wrong in colour.

In version 28.7.6 is cropping an images just fine and not embedded.

Mac Studio, M1 Max, Sequoia 15.4.1.

(Text in the screenshot;

"When a linked file is cropped, a copy of the original is embedded. The original file in the linked location is not affected.")

Ton Frederiks · Answer

Cropping an image will always embed it. You can delete pixels, change the resolution and in case of an RGB image in a CMYK document, convert it to the Document Color Profile.

If you do not want all of that, use a clipping mask for linked images.

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