Linked artwork
Advanced Links
Multi-page PDF placement, serial relinking, and smarter linked-file management for Illustrator.
Multipage PDF
Place · review · relink
The workflow
A focused place for the work.
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.
- Place single or multipage PDF files across individual artboards with precision
- Batch relink missing or modified assets without repetitive manual selection
- Synchronize installation across Illustrator CC 2021–2026 through SKtudio Hub
Key features
Purpose-built, from task to outcome.
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
How it fits
A short route through the workflow.
The exact controls stay in the product. The public story stays centered on the job.
- 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.
Compatibility and requirements
- Product type
- Extension
- Adobe host
- Adobe Illustrator
- Current release
- v1.2.4
- Installation
- SKtudio Hub
- Host versions
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Platforms
- Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit), macOS 12+ (Intel & Apple Silicon)
Install with SKtudio Hub
SKtudio Hub is the supported companion for installing, updating and managing SKtudio products. Account identity and access stay in the separate SKtudio Account portal.
Current release
Version 1.2.4
Released 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
Use cases
- Catalog and publication layout in Illustrator
- Packaging instruction inserts and multipage manuals
- Print-ready multi-page artwork assembly
FAQ
Useful answers, without guesswork.
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.
Ready to bring Advanced Links into the workflow?
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