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• • April 22, 2019 at 9:08 am #116239
    George Grenley

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    I create InDesign books that have lots of annotated photos. I used Illustrator to overlay circles and arrows and desriptions to color pictures, usually PSD on PNG. In order to have the book package with ALL the correct image files, I have to embed them in the Illustrator documents. Otherwise they get left behind….

    The drawback is that if I need to edit the image file itself, I have to unembed it, edit it, then re-embed it. Bit of a pain, that. Is there a better solution?

    I’d pay good money for some sort of tool that, when packages a book, opens the linked files to see if they have links, grabs them, etc.

    Here’s hoping….

  • April 22, 2019 at 9:27 am #116241
    David Blatner

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    I don’t understand… are you saying that when you package the book (choose “Package Book for Print” from the book panel menu), it is not including the linked graphics from each document in the book? It should! You should not need to embed the images.

  • April 22, 2019 at 10:33 am #116243
    Colleen Shannon

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    I think he’s saying the links from the illustrator file aren’t being packaged also.

  • April 22, 2019 at 10:39 am #116244
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Oh, right! Thank you, Colleen. (It would probably help if I slowed down and read it carefully.) :-)

    So here’s my suggestion, George: Don’t use Illustrator for that task. Use InDesign! I know that seems crazy, but you can place the PSD on an InDesign page, then add the overlay circles and so on. Then you can save the InDesign document and place it into the master InDesign document!

    Yes, you can place INDD files into InDesign, and they act just like PDF or AI files. However, when you package, InDesign is smart enough to package all the linked INDD files and the images that those documents link to!

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