Add an ability to embed locked, hidden images at once, and allow embedding with a mixed selection
When there are many images that are in the documents and you are preparing to embed all of them, it would save a lot of time if we didn't have to manually deselect those images that are already embedded. Plus when all images are selected to be embedded, we do also want the locked or hidden version to be too instead of having to unlock manually, embedding them and then locking again.
Thank you in advance.
KhalidR
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Yep. In a mixed selection of both embedded and still linked images Ai disables the button (sadly)... And Links doesn’t offer a way to separate and quickly select one type or another.
As a workaround I can offer a free Select Menu plugin (https://rj-graffix.com/downloads/plugins/#selectmenu) — it adds a pack of commands,, including Select > Object > Basic Art Types > Placed Art. This should speed up your workflow a bit (and you can assign a hotkey to it or wrap into an action, to speed it up).
As for the unlocking the showing the locked and hidden ones... I suppose it goes way to against what Lock and Hide are for, select All can’t select these.
But perhaps a dedicated command in Links panel (now a full clone of the button in Control) can be altered to work with none selected at all to offer some global choices, instead of being just grayed out. -
Kevin Wilson
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Sometimes i work with files that have a lot of links! Then when I send that file to the factory I ha e to embed all those links. To embed all the links takes what feels like forever!
If there was a “Embed All” button it would save so much time! 🙂 -
Protecting locked images from embedding is actually a correct thing to have, but I agree that AI should provide a way to embed locked too right there, when you embed them, without you making steps 4–6.
Multi-core is still a better thing to have, sure.
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keith-o
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Currently, we must unlock an image before embedding it. An example workflow where this in inconvenient is if I am preparing a doc for sharing and I would like to embed all images in a file for convenience. Or perhaps I have many small linked files that I want to embed for ease, like a complex illustration with many bitmaps.
Currently I do this:
1/I select all images in my links palette.
2/ click embed
3/ receive alert that AI won't embed any locked images. (either I prefer them locked or I locked and forgot)
4/ I unlock all images.
5/ Again, select the images in the palette and embed.
6/ If I preferred specific items locked, I must then laboriously re-lock them.The current action doesn't seem to serve any purpose. I have never wanted locked images to be protected from the embed function.
FYI: Illustrator performance and multi-core use far far far outweigh this.
