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Hi all, Sometimes when i create an image in illustrator then i paste it in photoshop to give it a duotone color, then i make a path and save it as an eps. When i import the image on my page it automatically makes it everything slow. Does anybody have an idea why this happens? It doesn't always happens but when it does, It only happens to the page that the image is on, the next pages are fine. I also have a fast machine so i know thats not the problem. Thanks

 Probably because you are embedding the image in to your document. When you paste you embed, thus making that image part of the document which means XPress has to render that image on screen without the benefit of a linked image. If you create an image box and then import the eps file you will create a link to the file.

Thanks for your answer, would that be the same result if i copy an image off the internet and save it as a tiff or eps with a path? For instance, I once copied an image of the net, to use it on one of my books, but the page which had this image on it was slow. Does that mean that the image had a link to a website without me knowing? And if that was the case, how can i prevent having a link? Because i though once you copy an image (either from the net or illustrator) into photoshop and save it, it would be perfect to work with.