Advanced Links · v1.2.4

Product documentation

Advanced Links is a professional Illustrator CEP extension for designers, prepress operators, and production teams who work with multi-page PDFs, AI files, and linked artwork. Place selected pages from a multi-page PDF or AI file in one operation, arrange them in rows or columns, scale them proportionally, and choose Trim or Bleed crop settings. When replacing an existing multi-page file, Advanced Links maps the new pages serially to the selected artwork while preserving each artwork’s position, scale, rotation, and layout. The panel follows Illustrator’s native Links-panel workflow and provides additional page-aware information, including pages in the source file, pages currently placed, file location, dimensions, scale, and link status.

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Capabilities

What this product does.

Place multiple PDF or AI pages in one workflow

Select all, odd, even, selected, or excluded pages

Arrange pages by rows or columns

Ascending and reverse page ordering

Adjustable spacing, columns, scale, and active artboard

Trim and Bleed crop options

Serial 1-to-1 multi-page relinking

Preserve position, scale, rotation, opacity, and stacking order

Relink selected artwork from a new PDF or AI file

Locate linked files in Explorer/Finder

Workflow

Recommended sequence.

01
Select multipage PDF
Browse and choose the PDF document needed in your Illustrator project.
02
Specify pages and artboards
Target specific pages and artboards with precision bounding-box control.
03
Maintain link integrity
Batch relink or replace PDF assets as artwork updates arrive from clients.

Use cases

Where it fits.

Catalog and publication layout in Illustrator
Packaging instruction inserts and multipage manuals
Print-ready multi-page artwork assembly

Release notes

Current version 1.2.4.

Version 1.2.4

2026-08-30

What’s New • Removed continuous full-document polling • Refresh now occurs when the panel becomes active • Manual Update Link remains available • PDF page counting moved to a background worker thread • Removed synchronous PDF file reads from the CEP UI thread • File metadata checks now use asynchronous operations • Repeated pages from the same source share one file-status lookup • Thumbnail generation is lazy and queued one item at a time • Reduced unnecessary Illustrator imageCapture calls • Selection-only changes no longer rebuild the entire link list • Scale and position changes update only the information area • Overlapping refresh requests are consolidated • Improved healthy, modified, missing, embedded, and damaged status handling Bug Fixes • Reduced lag when adding linked PDFs • Reduced lag when removing linked artwork • Reduced repeated file-system access for identical source files • Prevented unnecessary full panel rendering • Improved thumbnail responsiveness • Improved panel behavior with large multi-page documents • Fixed native panel icon theme assignment • Improved status refresh consistency

FAQ

Product answers.

Does Advanced Links work on macOS and Windows?+

Yes, both Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) are fully supported.

Which Illustrator versions are compatible?+

Adobe Illustrator CC 2021 through 2026.