Placeholders for Linked Images

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February 6, 2023
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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?

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

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

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AmdivalAuthor

Inspiring

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

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

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