Skip to main content
A
Amdival
Inspiring
February 6, 2023
Question

Placeholders for Linked Images

  • February 6, 2023
  • 1 reply
  • 1349 views

Sometime recently Illustrator has changed the way it deals with Linked Images.


The behavior used to be:
I have a PDF that is also Illustrator editable. The images are linked. If I open the PDF to edit in Illustrator, and the linked images are missing. In Illustrator the images would be missing.

 

The behavior is now:
Same situation as above, but now Illustrator uses a low-quality placeholder image. This is causing problems because now it's not obvious that something is missing. Now things are being accidently printed with these low quality images whereas before it would have been obvious that something was missing.

How do I prevent these low-quality placeholder images from being used? Is this a new feature of Illustrator, or am I doing something different?

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 7, 2023

Don't you get a message that the images are missing when you open the file?

A
AmdivalAuthor
Inspiring
February 7, 2023

Yes, and I know how to handle that.
The issue comes when I'm working with others that send files to a vendor. It happens that the vendor apparently ignores the message and just uses the placeholder image.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 7, 2023

If they use the PDF, they will use the high-res images (unless the pdf compression was set very low).

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices