CorelDRAW X4 Linking Objects

Linking Objects

Hi CD Community,

I want to know what the purpose of linking an object is.
There are the instructions on how in the Help menu but nothing on why.

I have some bitmaps that blow out the file size and make CD run slowly, so the obvious idea is to reduce document file size, but I thought I read somewhere it makes the file size much larger than embedding. Not sure if true & can't see why.

Also when I go to send the file , say as email attachment, or save to external device, does it collect and embed the object, prior to saving/sending?

0 David Milisock over 7 years ago

For most documents images placed at proper resolution embedding works fine. However if you have lots of images and you don't resample them then linking saves system recourses. With that said CorelDRAW IMO never did well with linked images, there always seemed to be more issues then what it was worth. I always embed and resampled the image at placed size.
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0 flemgooz over 7 years ago in reply to David Milisock

Thanks David,
Do you know if the linked objects have to be embedded manually later when sending the file or does it do it automatically?
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0 David Milisock over 7 years ago in reply to flemgooz

If you use prepare for service bureau the choice to send linked objects is there. I never link but I have 24 and 32 GB of RAM.
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0 Anand Dixit over 7 years ago

I partly disagree with David here. I know its little tricky to use linked images in DRAW but saying it never did well with linked images is not agreed. I frequently use linking but I haven't had a chance to work with lots and lots of images in one file. Limited linked images have worked well for me. Betterment in this workflow can be expected from Corel.
Now apart from saving system resources I give you an example where I use linking of images :

Say. There is one user working on image corrections. Few more users are supposed to use the image in their artworks. Now whenever the first user changes/edits the image, every one will have to replace it in their artworks. Linked images can be updated within DRAW. This helps having the same image in each artwork and because the linked images cannot be edited within DRAW, it is sure that none of the other users make any changes to that image in their own file even by error.
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