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If you want to keep a cropped image as a live linked image, you should Clip it instead. Press the Mask button (in Control or Properties panel) and Ai will create and select a rectangular path with the same dimensions. Transform this path with any tool you like or with the bounding box, and the image inside will remain unembedded.
Crop command, on the other hand, is intended specifically for 'physical' cropping, and since Ai won’t edit the original placed image, it gets embedded and then cropped.
Just use the method you need.
Please comment back if it works for you.
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This feature is made available to you through all the public builds starting V 27.8. Please try it out and let us know what you think!
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I’ve been using Illustrator since 1991 and image handling has always been weirdly painful.
Instead of treating this like other feature requests with upvoting, can you take more of a leadership role and just get this sorted?
1. Create a new image frame, for images.
2. Treat image frames like everything else with points, handles, strokes, corners and make them play nice so they can be used like any other Illustrator element (grouping, masking, alignment, path operations etc)
3. All Images then get a croppable frame by default, with no masking, crop tools or any extra work
4. Select a frame and import an image directly into it, plus copy/paste between frames
5. Commands to scale/fit images to the frame, and frame to image + all the shortcuts
6. Full asset management, linking, re-linking and auto-relinking like InDesign
7. Right-click image to 'Reveal in Finder'
8. Right-click image to 'Re-link'
9. Preview version of missing images
10. See the scaled percentage of images, and change the scale using the percentage
11. Rename embedded images
12. Use instances for multiple copies of the same embedded image, instead of bloating file sizes
After searching, many of these issues are listed as separate issues. But don't please treat them as such, it's time for a full image overhaul, it's that broken.
Cheers, Ben
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