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February 18, 2014

P: Multiple paths deselect when you convert them to a selection

  • February 18, 2014
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The behaviour of paths appears to have changed in Adobe CC. Before if you had 10 separate closed paths on path layer and you select one of the paths to convert it to a selection. After you pressed the 'convert path to selection button' all of the selected paths would stay selected and all of the other paths on that path layer would stay visible.

Since Adobe CC, now when you carry out the above process and once you click the 'convert path to selection button' it deselects all of the selected paths and all of the other paths are no longer visible meaning you have to go back to the path palette, re-select the path layer and then reselect all of the paths again.

This wastes a massive amount of time because what if the purpose of converting a group of selected paths was so that I can then apply a stroke to them? I now have to go back to the paths palette, select the path layer and then re-select all of the paths so that I can apply the stroke. That becomes a serious issue when you have 40 paths that you want to stroke. Why has this behaviour been changed? It worked perfectly before. Please can someone explain why the paths behaviours have been tampered with and whether anything is going to be done to fix this problem. It is seriously upsetting my work flow.

There is already a topic on this issue on the Adobe Community PS forum here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/61091...

Regards

An extremely frustrated technical illustrator.

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31 replies

Inspiring
June 26, 2014
Anything? Bump....
Inspiring
June 21, 2014
I notice that even with the latest PS CC (2014) update that this issue is still to be resolved. So that's four + months and still no effort has been made to correct an issue that was working fine in previous PS 6 and every other version before that. Is anyone at Adobe actually going to communicate with us and explain what the situation is? Is this going to be sorted out or brushed under the carpet and forgotten about.
Participating Frequently
June 15, 2014
Any light at the end of th etunnel for the path selection problem?
Inspiring
June 15, 2014
I'll take that as a no then?
Inspiring
June 9, 2014
Any updates on fixing this bug?
Inspiring
April 21, 2014
Chris, I share your frustration that this issue is yet to be ironed out. It affects every minute of my working day.
Participating Frequently
April 18, 2014
I am also frustrated by this new CC behavior with selecting paths. I am obliged to continually reactivate the paths palette with every path I want to convert--this means LOTS of extra clicks, and a big time sink on my projects. I have gone back to using CS6, and so my $49/month has no return on my investment. I will probably drop my CC subscription if I need to resort to CS6....!
Legend
February 28, 2014
It's been logged in our bug base and the engineers are looking into it.
Inspiring
February 28, 2014
Hi,

Any news on whether this change in behaviour is a bug/mistake and whether it will be rectified in a future update?
Inspiring
February 18, 2014
Thank you Jeffrey, I look forward to hearing about a solution. 🙂