extraneous object added with every library asset (Illustrator)

[rickj67791663]

Early on in my experiments with the Illustrator CC library, I added a few common items including a piece of text with a copyright statement. Many months later, I'm adding more vector art assets to other libraries, and I find that same copyright text snippet showing up in every asset, positioned several inches below the artboard of the added object. I'm puzzled where it came from, because it was never present in the documents from which I'm adding artwork. In fact, it's a 2017 copyright statement that I've not used for a long, long time!

I've tried different methods of adding the art, but the mystery text object always appears. I can, of course, edit each one and manually delete the extraneous point text object, but the art objects themselves are small (about a pica square) so the regenerated thumbnail comes in only a few pixels wide/high, which is often too small to distinguish one artwork from another.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this rogue text object from inserting itself into every asset I save?

😕

I asked earlier in the Illustrator forum, and was encouraged to ask here.

[rickj67791663]

Hi, I have used it but not here at work. I'd be happy to set it up to work with Adobe to solve this.

[Szalam]

NEVER PROVIDE YOUR PASSWORD!

The user, Sky Dancer is not an Adobe staff member!

[Szalam]

Staff members do not request these kinds of things.

Also, staff members are noted by a badge under their name that says staff. See how I have the ACP badge UNDERNEATH my profile picture? That's where it will say, "STAFF" when it's an Adobe staff member. But note: staff will never ask you for your password.

[Rick E Johnson · Accepted solution]

I found the solution to this issue. Art objects and layers are added to new library objects if they exist in this template:

Macintosh HD:Users:admin:Library:Application Support:Adobe:Adobe Illustrator 23:en_US:New Document Profiles:Print.ai

Objects and layers here are ignored when creating a new document.

This template should not be confused with the template file here:

Macintosh HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CC 2019:Support Files:New Document Profiles:en_US:Print.ai

[makingthings]

Thanks. Mine was under Adobe Illustrator 28. Werid behaviour.

[Shivangi_Gupta]

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