Linking Illustrator file to InDesign

If I link an Illustrator file into InDesign (to add some artwork to a book), then export the InDesign file to PDF to upload to a printing website, will it cause problems for the printing because of the linked Illustrator file?

The AI file, saved with PDF compatibility, includes a PDF.
Images of that file become images in the exported PDF.
Artwork and Text remain as it is.
If you use transparency effects and you reduce transparency upon export from InDesing it could be happen that artwork will be rasterized and exported as an image.
If you don’t use transparency effects or if you export without flattening transparency (like export as PDF/X-4) no artwork will be rasterized although the effects often are rasterized, but they have been rasterized in Illustrator before on the document raster effect settings you have chosen in Illustrator.
The best would be to give it a try and make a research on your exported PDFs with different settings.

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990
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