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Adobe Illustrator Help
Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator
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Turning preview images on or off
If a placed file with the Link option selected was not saved with a preview image in the
application that created it, it will not be visible in Adobe Illustrator when it is placed.
Instead, an outlined box containing two diagonal lines appears and defines the artwork’s
dimensions. The box is placed into the center of the active window, in front of all other
artwork in the file, and is selected.
If a placed file was saved with a preview image in the application that created it, you can
see it in Preview view, and you can choose to display a preview image in Outline view.
To turn on and off the display of preview images in Outline view:
1
Choose File > Document Setup. Then choose Artboard from the pop-up menu at the
top left of the Document Setup dialog box.
2
Click Show Images in Outline, and then click OK.
Note:
Placed images with the appropriate resource always display in Preview view,
regardless of the Show Images in Outline setting.
Managing linked and embedded images
The Links palette lets you identify, select, monitor, and update, and replace images that are
linked to external files, or images that are embedded in the Illustrator file. In addition, you
can determine if an image’s link to an external file is broken or missing, get information
about linked or embedded image characteristics, and open a linked image’s original file
and application to edit the image.
If you are color-managing artwork in a document, embedded EPS images are part of the
document and therefore color-managed when sent to a printing device. In contrast, linked
images are not color-managed, even if color management is turned on for the rest of the
document. (See
“About color management” on page 174
.)
Important:
Occasionally you may encounter a warning when printing an Illustrator
document containing embedded EPS images. If the application cannot find the original
EPS image, you will be prompted to extract the EPS image. Select the Extract option in the
dialog box; the image will be extracted into the same directory as the current document.
Although the embedded file does not preview in the document, the file will now print
correctly.
Specifying how to update links
You can set a preference to specify how to update linked images when the original files
change.
To specify how to update links:
1
Choose Edit > Preferences > Files & Clipboard (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator >
Preferences > Files & Clipboard (Mac OS X).
2
Choose an update method from the Update Links pop-up menu:
•
Automatically to have Illustrator update linked images automatically when the original
files are modified.
