Having problems with Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop (cs2)?

Question

Anyone any good with Photoshop & Illustrator CS2?

I've knocked up a couple of flyers in illustrator using mostly vector graphics & type. I have edited some jpeg images in fotoshop by removing the background, resizing them and adding a single layer style (outer glow) I saved them in my documents as a PDF file. All was fine when i placed them into my illustrator documnet. After finishing the flyer i saved them as one PDF and one AI file.
I can open/view the file in Adobe Reader 8 with all the images and artwork absoloutley fine but, when i came to open the two different files in Illustrator all the images were missing and an error dialouge box appeared which read:
'Could not find the linked file (named image). Choose repair to locate the missing file, or replace to select another file or, ignore to leave the link unchanged'.
What's really odd, is that i used the original layout as a template for another flyer and these opened fine in Illustrator with all the images ok. Any one help

Answer 1

First off, if you're coming up with Flyers, make sure to design them in InDesign - Illustrator was meant for vector graphics, not page layout. Now, it sounds like you must have moved the original files that you linked (or you're working on the files on different computers. . .) Links to files are like a path - if you change the path to the file by moving it into a different folder, then Illustrator (or InDesign, etc. . .) doesn't know where to look for it.



Now, your PDF does not use links to files - it embeds them in the document, so your images would appear just fine. Also, about using the original layout as a template: even if the links are broken, there are occasions where Adobe will insert a low-resolution representation of the graphic (this happens in InDesign - not sure if it is the same in Illustrator.) This may be what you're looking at. The best way to check is to select the image using the selection tool and check its link in the links palate. It will tell you if it's missing or modified.



Short answer: Find the files manually and re-link them (after you layout the flyer in InDesign.) Hope this helps - Cheers!

Answer 2

Did you move those two files from where you had them when you creating them? If you put them in a different folder or moved the folder they were in to a different location on your computer OR if you moved the images you were using, you broke the links. When you placed those images from Photoshop into Illustrator, you were creating a link to the actual images. So somehow the link has been broken.

Answer 3

I did some digging and found the same resolution that you did. I don't know why this happened, but I believe uninstall and reinstall should resolve this issue. Sorry I couldnt have been more helpful.

Answer 4

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I guess it's the sotware you need.

Bye