Can't paste an object - will fall off the drawing area?

[jeanthemachine]

When I try to copy and paste a graphic into another illustrator file I get the message: "Can't paste the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area?" Can anybody help with this? Do I need to change a pref setting? I'm using illus cs5. Thanks!

[remos41686286]

Hey Monika, I managed to fix it! or well, it wasn't really a fix since I just have to use ctrl + shift + v instead of ctrl + v. ( paste in place its called I think )

[medicineheads_no]

Hi remos
Know this is a bit late in the discussion... but just some information that might be relevant
When you do a normal paste "ctrl + v" whatever you are pasting will aways position itself in the middle of your screen.

😉

[Ruba33378846eejg]

thanks so much for this tip ive been stuck for 3 days trying to solve this problem and your'e the only comment that helped me !! 8 years later and its still helpful lol xD

[Udhan]

Simply do the following:-

View->Guides->Clear Guides

It resolves the problem.

[Salem Print Pack]

Thanks machi... 

[Guest]

Thanks for this info.  If you don't want to clear all your guides, just make sure you delete or move any guides out from the layers you are trying to copy/paste.  Worked for me. 

I usually put all my guides on a separate layer but sometimes I accidentally create one in a layer containing artwork. This happened to me on this file and so when I selected all my artwork layers (accidentally including a guide) and tried to copy/paste them, it gave me this error due to the guide being in there.

[mashat15817568]

This is super helpful. I had released guides, and then didn't delete the two anchor points when I deleted the guide. So, I used the lasso to select my drawing, then went to the toolbar and hit Select>Inverse then hit the delete key to delete those two points out in space. Problem solved. Thank you!

[Robbie5C27]

I had a similar problem (also using cs5), but I could not find my solution anywhere on the internet so I thought I would drop it here.

The error message in question would occur when I tried pasting a graph from Excel to AI. I had no problem with other graphs, but this one graph in particular kept giving me the error. Turns out I had an erronious value of a very large quantity as part of the graph, let's pretend it was 99,999,999,999. Even though it was being "clipped out" in Excel by using a date range that occurred outside of the erronius data point, when the graph is coppied into AI, the data extends back to that data point and shot the graph "off of the drawing area". Got rid of the data point and the problem was resolved. 

Image below shows how information is stored beyond the <clipping path> of the graph pasted into AI.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

If you are using Paste in Front/Back, it honours the zero point set in each document, so if your zero points are different, it will definitely place in an unexpected place.

[Harry2663058379x6]

You may also try Ctrl/Cmd+A to see what you have, and maybe have a surprise.

[cebug93291850]

thank you