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Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator
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• Choose Go to Link from the Links palette menu.
The link is displayed, and the linked image is selected.
To update a link with the most recent data from the linked file:
1 Select one or more links in the Links palette.
2 Choose one of the following to refresh the link with the most current version of the
original file:
• Click the Update Link button at the bottom of the palette.
• Choose Update Link from the Links palette menu.
You can set a preference to automatically update links. See “
Specifying how to update
links” on page 37.
To change a linked image into an embedded image:
1 Select a linked image in the Links palette.
2 Choose Embed Image from the Links palette menu.
Replacing linked images
You use the Links palette to replace a linked image with another linked image. By default,
the new image adopts the size, placement, and transformation status of the original linked
image. Using the Placement Options dialog box, you can change the placement options
for any link you place or replace. For example, you can specify that the new image resets
the original image’s bounding box so that the new image’s shape and alignment are not
altered.
To replace a link with a new linked image:
1 Select a link in the Links palette.
2 Choose one of the following:
• Click the Replace Link button at the bottom of the palette.
• Choose Replace from the Links palette menu.
3 Select the file to replace the linked image in the Place dialog box, and click OK. The new
image retains the size, placement, and transformation characteristics of the image that it
replaced.
To change the placement of the linked image:
1 Choose Placement Options from the Links palette menu.
2 Choose one of the following from the Preserve pop-up menu:
• Transforms resizes the bounding box for the new image upon placement, while
preserving transformations.
• Proportions (Fit) uniformly scales the image to fit in the bounding box. This option
preserves the aspect ratio of the image, filling the bounding box in one direction, but
possibly not the other.
• Proportions (Fill) uniformly scales the image to fill the bounding box. This option
preserves the aspect ratio and may cause the image to overlap the bounding box in
one direction.
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