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angelos1974
angelos1974
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October 4, 2024
Question

Placed Illustrator Graphics on Master Pages in InDesign Resulting in Excessive Link Count in PDF

  • October 4, 2024
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I have placed one Illustrator graphic .ai, 10 times on a master page in an InDesign document. That master page is applied to twenty pages in the document. When I export that document as a PDF it ends up as an extremely large file.
When I checked the Links window it shows that graphic 200 times. I have check in previous files with similar method and it only shows that graphic only the amount of times which apears on the master page.

 

Does anyone have an explanation for this.

Thanks in advance

 

 

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Scott Falkner
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Scott FalknerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2024

It is not surprising that the PDF is large since it 20 instances of the Illustrator file (well, the PDF portion of the Illustrator file). The fact there are so many instances of the linked file in the Links panel suggests the image was overridden one or more times.

 

Did you make one page, then duplicate it, or did you add several blank pages based on the parent? I suspect the former, and somehow you overrode the parent items before making the duplicates.

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2024

Is the image linked or embedded? We can't see the icon because the filename is so wide.

 

How large is the PDF?

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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