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BENKUEP
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April 17, 2018
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Duplicate Graphic Styles when copying form one dokument to another

  • April 17, 2018
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When I copy objects that are linked to graphic style from one document and paste them into a document with the identical graphic styles (Same appearance, same name) new graphic styles are created with the same name plus appended numbers. Is there a way that the graphic styles are not duplicated, so that I don't have to delete the duplicated styles manually?

I would appreciate very much your help.

Daniel

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    Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

    Thanks. Here are the same files for Illustrator CS6.

    https://we.tl/MoqQn3hbA2


    If I open "example1_cs6.ai" selected and deleted all unused styles. I draw a fresh new line and assign the graphic style  Feine Linie to this, every time I copy paste this line within the same document a new Feine Linie2... Feine Linie3...  appears. The other styles seemed to be good.

    To fix I created a new stroke and matched the settings black 1 pt stroke. I then option dragged the stroke on over "Feine Line" swatch in graphic styles to replace all settings. Now when I copy a stroke with the updated settings to "Feine Linie" that no longer duplicates.

    So you may need to recreate the problematic ones you have, and option drag over graphic style to redefine.

    The color profile differs between both your documents, but do not think that has anything to do with this after testing.

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    markdc33
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    July 11, 2024

    The cause for me: "Global" color swatches which were born and raised in a CMYK document, hopped on a CC Library, landed in an RGB document, and at first glance were upright citizens, but their "true colors" showed when they hooked up with the clipboard, causing a Dark Matter event.

    Filipys
    Filipys
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    March 16, 2021

    I still had he same problem. Some of the graphic styles still duplicate when you copy paste an object. Especially lines. I tried to buid it from scratch but that was okay until you saved and opened the document again. With the graphic Styles where there was an arrow or a 'round corner'-effect added to the lines there was no problem.  So I put a very small round-corner effect (0,01) on the regular and dotted lines...

    and... it works...

    Grtz,

    Filip

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      chopshopstore.com
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      March 11, 2023

      I have this issue in EVERY THING I make. If I have 4 styles, inside of about an hour I will have 25 more duplicates of those 4 syles. Then when I want to revise the style — it doesn’t take to half the work rendering the whole use of graphic styles useless. 

      Kurt Gold
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      Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
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      April 17, 2018

      What you are describing is an issue (bug) in older versions of Illustrator (for example CS5).

      Which version are you using?

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      BENKUEPAuthor
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      April 18, 2018

      I am using Illustrator CC Version 22.1.

      Kurt Gold
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      Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
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      April 18, 2018

      Can you share the .ai files?

      Mike_Gondek10189183
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      Mike_Gondek10189183Community Expert
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      April 17, 2018

      If that is happening, there must be something different about the graphic style. If you move the fill color color even 1% will do that.

      You could compare them in appearance to see if something is different.

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      BENKUEPAuthor
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      April 18, 2018

      Thanks for answering. I have checked it. The appaerance is identical.

      Mike_Gondek10189183
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      Mike_Gondek10189183Community Expert
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      April 18, 2018

      Check the colors are identical. I agree with Kurt if you can post the files, that would really help, as something more complex may be going on here.

      Most often this is caused by a difference in the style attributes. Unless you physically updated a style this should not happen.

      I would normally suggest the merge styles flyout to help clean this up so you can move on, but 2 reasons:

      1. seems to be a bug as does not work at all as merge swatches does - atleast in CS6 mac which is the system I am this week
      2. would like to analyze your files to find the exact cause, so we can confirm the styles are consistant or if this is a false positive
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