Batch Unlinking of Placed Illustrator/PDF links?

I have a bunch of PDF files, in some of which I've Placed TIF image
files or other PDF image files that were on my HD.

It wasn't until late in the game that I learned about the linked or
unlinked options for these Placed images. I'd like them all to be
unlinked, but I don't remember which ones went in which way.

I know how to use the Link window in Illustrator to remove these links,
one at a time: Open the Link window; select each link that is shown; go
to that linked image using a little icon at the bottom; and re-Place the
linked image with the Link box unchecked . . . right?

Anyone have any ideas on a batch method to do this "check and unlink"
process on a whole bunch of PDFs, in batch mode? (potentially hundreds
of them) Would Graphic Converter have this level of skill?

Lacking that, any quick way to look at a PDF file in Acrobat and quickly
see if it contains any such links?

Thanks . . .

On Aug 25, 3:48 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT....RemoveThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article <siegman-2FFB97.09362025082....RemoveThis@news.stanford.edu>,
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> AES <sieg....RemoveThis@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > I have a bunch of PDF files, in some of which I've Placed TIF image
> > files or other PDF image files that were on my HD.
>
> > It wasn't until late in the game that I learned about the linked or
> > unlinked options for these Placed images. I'd like them all to be
> > unlinked, but I don't remember which ones went in which way.
>
> > I know how to use the Link window in Illustrator to remove these links,
> > one at a time: Open the Link window; select each link that is shown; go
> > to that linked image using a little icon at the bottom; and re-Place the
> > linked image with the Link box unchecked . . . right?
>
> > Anyone have any ideas on a batch method to do this "check and unlink"
> > process on a whole bunch of PDFs, in batch mode? (potentially hundreds
> > of them) Would Graphic Converter have this level of skill?
>
> > Lacking that, any quick way to look at a PDF file in Acrobat and quickly
> > see if it contains any such links?
>
> Not sure if you know this but you can export any .ai file or even .pdf
> in Illustrator to .eps and embed the pics. The result is a file that has
> all within it, no separate linked loose pics. You should then be able to
> make an action to do this to a whole bunch of files in a folder. I have
> no time to do this right now but this thought might assist you.
>
> --
> dorayme

AES,

First, to embed, you simply need to do a "select all" and go to the
LInk Menu flyout and select "Embed."
And if it's important to maintain the files as PDF, you can record an
action that opens the file, selects all, embeds the images, and saves
it. Then run it in batch mode on a folder of files.