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Mathias17
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Image Links Breakage

May 12, 2012 5:13 PM

Is there a way to avoid every image link being broken when you move your project files around?

 

Paths are absolute, instead of relative.

 

DIR.PNG

 

 

If I move the folder "Poster Brochure_TEMPLATE_CON", along with all files and folders within, and then try and re-open "Poster Brochure_TEMPLATE.ai" the image links are broken.

 

 

 

-Discussion of same problem in the InDesign forum-

937 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: cmyck, Oct 30, 2012 2:52 AM
 
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  • [scott w]
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    1. [scott w],
    May 12, 2012 5:29 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    nope.. no way other than to keep links at the same directory level as the .ai file.

     
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    2. Mathias17,
    May 12, 2012 6:21 PM   in reply to [scott w]
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    But that's relative pathing you're referring to.

     
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    May 12, 2012 6:29 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    Paths are absolute if links aren't in the same directory as the .ai file. Illustrator looks in the direcotry of the document first... then defaults to the absolute path of the image when it was linked.

     
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    May 12, 2012 7:35 PM   in reply to [scott w]
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    Drat, I wish it would at least do a recursive search with a depth of at least 2 or 3 subdirectories - that would solve the majority of the broken links people get.

     
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    May 12, 2012 9:43 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    99.9% of my files get cooked with a "links" or "images" folder in the enclosing folder, so I completely agree with you.  Relative is the way to go, as long as you are looking within the enclosing folder.  Otherwise, absolute.

     
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    May 12, 2012 10:23 PM   in reply to Jesseham
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    Oy. Will just deal with it then.

     
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  • cmyck
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    7. cmyck,
    Oct 30, 2012 2:52 AM   in reply to Mathias17
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    I think I put in a feature request for this in 2001.

    Adobe rather adds new features than fixing bugs and tackling performance issues.

    Also there's no easy way to scale a placed image back to it's original size (also put in as a feature request a long time ago).

    Adobe is just an annoying monopoly.

     
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