Turn off PSD Thumbnail preview in Illustrator

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October 13, 2017
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I'm working with lots of images relinking the correct profiled/retouched tiff or psd into an Illustrator file which contains multiples of the same images.

When relinking images in list view Illustrator takes ages (hanging/spinning) to do the tiny preview thumbnails for anything between 10 and 200+ images. I know the name of the image I need to replace so I don't need the tiny preview.

So, can I turn it off?

Also I can't start adding subfolders for each specific printer profile (meaning less images to preview) as it's not my structure to mess with.

Thanks.

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Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Even with preview thumbnail set to none your previews will likely still be slow.

When you a large quantity of linked or embedded images in illustrator, the program will get slow. Is best to copy the images to your clipboard, pasted into photoshop, then rebuild this as one .psd file and replace in illustrator.

For example someone placed individual images for each potato chip. The file took 7m 49sec to open. I rebuilt this as one image and now takes 6 seconds. The shadows are also more realistic also.

You really should never have to scroll in your links panels, if you do is usually time to rebuild.

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AdjewlicatorAuthor

Participant

I had a feeling nothing was really going to speed things up.

Normally I'd rather comp everything together. There are thousands of profiled printer specific master images used across lots of different designs. So rather than a job specific comped image it takes forever to build an artwork using the correct images.

(Sub folders would have been nice).

A job specific comp of these images would make sense, unfortunately it's not within my remit to change the way of working...yet.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

For my part you are welcome. If you cannot merge the images into one, maybe you can keep the images on a single layer, and hide that layer when not needed. This way you can do your other revisions quicker, and turn back on when going to print or making .pdf.

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Debbie Keller

Participating Frequently

Click on the Links Panel Menu and choose Panel Options, you should then see this and be able to turn off Thumbnails.