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"Include Linked Files"
How can set "Include Linked Files" as default when I save a Illustrator Document? I use Illustrator cs4.
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The only advantage to embedding files is to make it easier to transfer the artwork to someone else, like a printer, since you don’t need to hunt down all the linked artwork and Illustrator, despite over 20 years of development and 15 versions, still has no package or collect feature. That’s right, Adobe has put zero effort into adding this necessary feature. Really.
However, the disadvantages are worse. If an embedded image needs to be edited there are limits to what can be extracted for editing in an external application like Photoshop. Even if it can be done, very few people know the never-officially-documented tricks needed to get the image data out into an external file. Interapplication cooperation between Adobe programs is primarily a big fat joke. The only thing “suite” about the Creative Suite is Adobe’s profits.
In short, it is almost always a mistake to embed files rather than link.
to add to the well thought out and informative replies above, there is an established work low many users prefer whenusing images in Illustrotr.
They generally link the files to save size of the ai File. When they are ready to send the file to the print they use the option in the Illustrator save as option panel they chose to included linked files. This embeds those lined file in the ai file.
So they need only do this one time with one command.
They usually make a copy for output for this purpose which they can delete from their harddrive later.
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