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Linking and Embedding
When you add artwork to an image from an outside file by using the Place command, it can be linked or embedded. Embedding places a copy of the artwork within the Illustrator file. Linking places only enough information to allow Illustrator to find the original artwork for display within the image. Linking placed images rather than embedding them keeps the Illustrator document's file size down and allows the placed artwork to be updated or changed as necessary in its own program.

To Place an image in Illustrator

1.Choose File> Place.

2. Locate and click the name of the file you desire.

3. Check Link to place a screeen version of the file into your document with a link to the original image file. Thne original file won't be affected by your Illustrator edits., but in order to print properly it must be available on your hard disk.

4.Uncheck Link to Embed your image file. This option will increase the storage size of your illustrator file.

File formats you can Open in Illustrator:

Native formats: Illustrator (ai.)versions 1.0 through CS, Illustrator .ait, Illustrator EPS and PDF

File formats you can Open or Place in Illustrator:

• Raster formats: BMP, FLM(mac only), GIF, JPG. JPG 2000, KODAK PHOTO CD, PCX,PIXAR, PNG,TGA, TIFF, Photoshop.
• Vector Formats: CorelDraw, versions 5-10
• Graphics (vector) formats: CG; DXF and DWG (Autocad drawing and export); Freehand(upto version 9); PICT; SVG and CVGZl; EMF; and WMF. Illustrator CS can't open MAcromedia Flash SWF files.
• Text formats: plain text (ASCI), RTF, and MS Word (upt to version 2002 in WIndows and on the Mac)

A bitmap image that's acquired in Illustrator via the Open, Place or drag and drop method can be moved, placed on a different layer, masked, modifed using and transnform tool, or modified using any color or raster filter.

To edit a linked image in its original application:

1. Display the Links palette, then click the image name in the palette.

Click the Edit Original button at the bottom of the palette or choose Edit Original from Palette menu. The app in which the linked image was created will launch, if it isn't already open. Note: Edit Original may not work in Windows, depending on where the link file is located.

2. Make your edits, resave the file and return to Illustrator. If a warning prompt apears, click Yes. The linked image will update. If you replace one linked image with another one, any transformations thatw ere appied to the original, such as scaling or rotating, will be applied to the new one.

To replace a linked image with another one.:

1. On the Links palette, click the name of the file that you want to replace.

2. Click the relink button at the bottom of the Links palette.

or,

Choose Relink from the Links palette menu.

3. Locate the replacement file then click Place.

Another way to replace a linked image is to select the placed image in the document window, choose File> Place, locate the the replacement image, check Replace, then click Place.

When a linked image is located using the Go to Link command, it becomes selected in the document window, centered onscreen.

To locate a linked image in an Illustrator file:

1. Open the illustraion that contains the linked image.

2. Click the name of the linked image on the Links palette list.

3. Click Go to Link button at the bottom of the palette

To view file information on a linked image:

Double-click an image thumbnail on the Links palette.

or,

Click a file name on the Links palette, then choose Link Information from the palette menu.

A dialogue box listing information about the image, such as file format, location, size etc, will apeear.

To convert a linked image to an embedded image:

1. On the links palette list, click the name of the image that you want to embed.

2. Choose Embed Image from the Links palette menu.

Note; There is no command to turn an embedded image into a linked image. You can use the Relink button or the Relink command on the Links palette menu to replce the embedded image with a linked image.

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