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hannad3722757
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April 20, 2020
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Large file won't place as link in Illustrator – "Try Replacing this with another valid link"

  • April 20, 2020
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I am trying to place a linked file onto my Illustrator artboard and everytime that I try to place it I get the following pop up after it tries to place. I've dragged the file from my desktop onto the page and it allows me to embed the file, but when I try to "unembed" and link the file, I get the same message that "illustrator cannot read the file. Try to replacing this with another valid link"

 

I have resaved the file as a different color format in PSD to see if that would help, it didn't. I also tried restarting. Uninstalling illustrator and reinstalling it. 

 

Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

    Correct answer RalitsaM

    Mine already is in RGB. 567KB file (PNG).

     

    And nothing has worked so far. Has this been fixed for you? I'm still running 2021 version and first time facing this issue.


    What fixed it is downgrading to version 25.0 – I finally placed a png file without any issues. I believe this shouldn't be a problem in version 27.0 and up, but I'm still on an older OS so this was the only option for me.

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    Manonono_
    Participant
    January 14, 2021

    I also keep getting the same error, it doesn't matter what kind op jpg/jpeg file it is, it's almost like Illustrator isn't able to read jpg/jpeg files anymore since I updated to the 2020/2021 version...

    So at the moment I'll just take a screenshot (png file) of the image and place it, then Illustrator does accept it. This isn't ideal of course and I'm hoping that Adobe will solve this problem soon!

      chanaart
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      chanaartCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 26, 2020

      could not open your screenshot.

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      williamv90414626
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      October 26, 2020

      Have same issue dont matter if I split the image, illustrator keep saying the same error they are 56mb big dont know why never have this issue before with big doc

        Mylenium
        Mylenium
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        April 21, 2020

        And what are the actual specs of the file? Just from the info in the warning message it seems to me that you are simply breaking all limits in terms of dimensions. If that's indeed the case, this will never work and you have to slice up the image into separate segments.

         

        Mylenium

        SiDobe11
        SiDobe11
        Participant
        September 9, 2020

        Having the exact same error message and issue. Is there a file size limitation for placing images in Illustrator? Weird thing is I can save this image with LZW compression and it brings it down to 115mb, so it isn't absurdly large. It is large, but very confusing why it won't place. The physical size of the image 44" x 57" so certainly within the limitations of Illustrator's workspace. Any thoughts?

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