I can no longer paste from Illustrator to Photoshop. But I can post from Illustrator to InDesign and then in to Photoshop.

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I can no longer paste artwork from Illustrator to Photoshop. I get an error message that says the clipboard is empty.

However I can paste artwork from Illustrator to InDesign.

I can then paste the artwork from InDesign to Photoshop.

It’s a long winded workaround to a problem that I have not had in over twenty years of using Adobe software.

I am using a 2025 Mac Mini with up to date Adobe Creative Suite.

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danielmarshallAuthor

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I’ve got a Mac Mini M5 Pro and Adobe CC with everything updated.

What you have just done is what I have been doing for 20 years. But weirdly no longer can. I logged in and out of CC, but the problem remains.

Thank you for trying to help:

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justlearn

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@danielmarshall Look in the Illustrator Preferences (Command K), Clipboard Handling, and make sure PDF, SVG Code and Preserve Paths are enabled.

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I had already done this. I have tried all the usual tricks.

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justlearn

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@danielmarshall I just tried, I created a vector artwork, copied it and went into Photoshop and paste. A dialog box opened with a paste dialog box and you can see on the left, Photoshop has my image.

I am using a MacBook Pro M5 with 64 gigs of RAM on Photoshop 27.11 — what version are you using?

I would Quit both Illustrator and Photoshop. And then quit Creative Cloud Desktop App; after quiting on all three, sign back into Creative Cloud app, and relaunch both Illustrator and Photoshop to see if that helps

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