Illustrator freezes when selecting links & switching documents with placed images
When working on a file that has a few placed images, Illustrator freezes for about 45 seconds when selecting different links in the links panel. This also happens when switching between open documents with placed images. To recreate the problem, I reset the preferences on the latest version of Illustrator, opened 2 files with lots of placed images, then selected different images and switched between the two open documents. Sure enough after a couple of minutes Illustrator started freezing giving me the beachball for about 45 seconds. This bug has only started happening in version 28. I reverted to version 27.9.5 and this bug is not there.
Chris Munro
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Chris, the team has been trying to solve a problem with performance and linked files for some time and made several changes to the engine.
Some are available already in the latest Beta — can you please try it and see if it handles these files with many links better?
