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Alex.S
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Delete all image instances

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There's still no "Delete All Instances of an Image" option for a specific image.
And it's incredibly annoying! Do you have any plans to implement this functionality?
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Daniel - PDF-XChange
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Re: Delete all image instances

Post by Daniel - PDF-XChange »

Hello, Alex.S

I split this post away from the other topic, as that one was about find/replace text. "find"-ing an image is a much more complicated order, and sadly is not possible at this time. However, in some cases, PDFs can efficiently store the same image as a single "instance" (in cases like this, the "Edit" "replace" and "recompress" images tools are all able to "update" all instances of that image, instead of treating the images separately.

I have put in a request to leverage this aspect of PDF to add a "delete all image instances" option.

Now I should note that due to how PDF works at its core, it is very much possible that you have 15 identical images, which are not all "flagged" as instances of the same image. As such, this proposed feature may not help in all scenarios. Sadly as I noted above, finding identical images that were not created with a flag indicating as much, is very difficult, and likely will not be implemented for quite some time, if ever.

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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