How to embed multiple images

[WilhardFlynn]

Hello!

I have been tying to figure out how I could easily embed multiple linked images easily. I have some 1000 .svg  images which have about 1-7 .tif images linked in to them. I now need to get those links embedded and becouse of the amount of images I'm hoping to make an action out of it. I have a script to embed single image in .svg but haven't have luck with multiple embeddings.

Any ideas?

[dovidgold]

How about use a function like:

function embedAllImages(){

    placedArt = app.activeDocument.placedItems;

    if (placedArt < 0) {

    return;

        } else {

    for ( var i = placedArt.length-1; i >= 0; i-- ) {

    placedArt.embed();

    }

}

}

[WilhardFlynn]

Hi!

Couldn't get it to work. It did't seem to do anything when I ran it through. Have You got this working? Can You tell how?

[Muppet Mark · Accepted solution]

The sample is a function it will do nothing until called upon…

#target illustrator
embedAllImages();
function embedAllImages(){
    var placedArt = app.activeDocument.placedItems;
    if ( placedArt.length == 0 ) { return; }
    for ( var i = placedArt.length-1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
        placedArt.embed();
    };
};

[WilhardFlynn]

Great got it working now. Thanks for Your help.

BUT (there always seems to be a but) now I'm facing new troubles. Kind of the same that Dovidgold seems to be facing http://forums.adobe.com/message/4733717#4733717

After running the script on a image with two linked items. One of the items jumps on a different layer and scales it self to original size.

So, once again, any ideas?

[Muppet Mark]

Well you could confirm this issue by telling us what CS version & OS your using…?

[WilhardFlynn]

I'm running a CS5 on XP pro

[Muppet Mark]

Oh well there goes the CS6 or Lion problem…

[dovidgold]

I see I'm not the only one experienceing the bug.

I have made a screencast (1:22min) demonstrating the bug on a Windows 7 (64bit) using CS6 (64bit).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njToOj0Ly_8

My question is, is this an internal application / compiler bug, or is the syntax incorrect?

[dovidgold]

I'm using a workaround now to embed all linked images when saving, using the save options properties:

var saveOps = new IllustratorSaveOptions();

saveOps.embedLinkedFiles = true;

app.activeDocument.saveAs(File('~/desktop/savedembed.ai'), saveOps);

This is on a mac, ~ means home directory. On windows just use a windows path.

This accomplishes the same thing for what I needed the script for. But may not be the best option for all cases.

I hope a developer for Adobe can answer or solve the bug.