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In this video I'm just going to show you a few additional important things to remember about linked assets in Illustrator. First of all there is a shortcut to quickly place assets in that's Command or Control Shift P and in this case instead of placing one asset I'm going to have two of them selected and notice how I have the linked option turned on. If I choose place I will be able to place these one by one I can either just click or click and drag to define the size that I want to use for these illustrations and within the links panel we can see how both of these are added and I can see the little chain icon which means that it's a healthy link meaning that the source file is available and everything is good. However let's see what happens if I rename one of those source files so I'm just going to call this bike1 for instance. As soon as I come back to Illustrator I will see a little warning sign appearing here that the link is broken. Now in this case I can still preview the object…

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