Copy & Paste from one Illustrator File to Another Affects Gradient

[emilyjs10]

Hi all,

I am struggling with cutting an object from illustrator (a circle with light globes around it emitting light in the form of a gradient) and posting it into another illustrator file.

When I cut/copy the object and paste it into the new illustrator file with existing artwork, the gradient of the pasted item is altered. It shows as much lighter, I have included below for you to see.

If anyone could help provide some advice on how to successfully cut a vector object with multiple gradients from one illustrator file to another it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Is the color mode the same in both documents?

[emilyjs10]

They weren't!

One was CMYK and the other RGB - once I converted the document I was working in to RGB and pasted the object to it, it worked!

Thanks so much

[stevemyers]

Do you have the same color on both?

[Scarlett.3369]

Im having this issue but mine are the same color mode and only a few elements are being effected and some are not. The whay they are filled is changing. 

[EXECdesign]

Im having this issue but mine are the same color mode and only a few elements are being effected and some are not. The whay they are filled is changing. 

By @Scarlett.3369

^^This is what I have, too. Both same format/size, both CMYK FOGRA39. All grain textures are destroyed after copy & paste - unusable. How can that be???

[EXECdesign]

Qick'n'dirty workaround was exporting the whole page as PDF and inserting it as PDF into the other Illustrator document. At least nothing gets destroyed then but that's definitely not the way to go.

[Anubhav M]

Hello @EXECdesign,

Could you share more details, like the version of the OS/Illustrator installed, screenshots/a screen recording of the problem, and a link to a sample file after uploading it to a file sharing service, so I can check it on my end?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav