Edit Original w/ Embedded Images: A Script Or Plugin to Make This Work?

We receive so many files from customers with embedded images rather than links; I'd love if Edit Original would still work with embedded images, perhaps only for those filetypes that it recognizes as being able to open into Photoshop.
Does anyone know of a script that would add this functionality, or perhaps a plugin?

Hate to bust your bubble but once a file has been embedded in AI it becomes just raster data without a file type. Not a JPEG, not a PSD, not a TIFF—just raster data. You can open the file with Photoshop and select Images from the Open dialog or open a version in Acrobat and extract the images from there.

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According to your description, you'd like to send a email with an embedded image in the signature.
I suggest you sending the image in the last of the body of email instead of operating the signature of email.
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SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt");
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// Set sender email address, please change it to yours
oMail.From = "[email protected]";
// Set recipient email address, please change it to yours
oMail.To = "[email protected]";
// Set email subject
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// User and password for ESMTP authentication, if your server doesn't require
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oServer.User = "[email protected]";
oServer.Password = "testpassword";
// If your smtp server requires SSL/TLS connection, please add this line
// oServer.ConnectType = SmtpConnectType.ConnectSSLAuto
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// 'test.gif is in c:\\my picture
oMail.ImportHtml("<html><body>test <img src=\"test.gif\"> importhtml</body></html>", "c:\\my picture", ImportHtmlBodyOptions.ImportLocalPictures | ImportHtmlBodyOptions.ImportCss);
Console.WriteLine("start to send email with embedded image ...");
oSmtp.SendMail(oServer, oMail);
Console.WriteLine("email was sent successfully!");
} catch (Exception ep) {
Console.WriteLine("failed to send email with the following error:");
Console.WriteLine(ep.Message);
If you have any other concern regarding this issue, please feel free to let me know.
Best regards,
Youjun Tang
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Extract Embedded Images-did you know that-

there is actually a feature in Illustrator to do this even though it is not called Extract Images?
Not only that once you extract the image you can update it as well you do not have to lace it again and reposition it.
When I saw this and realize it was there I could not believe it as it has been asked so many times and there have been numerous work arounds.
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Edit>Edit Image
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@rijackson --- you most surely can "Relink"... well that's what the button you choose in Illustrator is called... even if the image is embedded. This will place the image in the exact same place and size as the embedded image, thus "linking" it if you checked the Link box when placing.
Also, you can always choose Link Information and see what transformations the image has went through regarding size and rotation. This is also with a native Illustrator file only. The information can be used to calculate what you need to do to the image to revert to it's original size and rotation. Rather unfortunate, because something intuitive like Freehand used to have, like changing the percentage and angle in the Appearance panel was far better and easier to revert images, embedded or linked.
@rijackson --- considering all of the features and functions that Illustrator still does not have or are incomplete... yes, Illustrator as a whole is pathetic as the only pro vector alternative on the market. Not just this one omission, which is easily worked around. That's what I was trying to say to wazi9909.
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