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Copy/paste pattern fill keeps pasting object with former pattern not new pattern

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June 17, 2021
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Since a few days I seem to have a problem when I want to copy and paste and object filled with a pattern.

First I make a pattern swatch of a blue and white dot. Then I make a few colour variations of that same dot and make different pattern swatches for each. This is all fine.

I fill my shape with the blue and white dot, copy paste it and change the pattern fill to one of the other patterns I have just created using the swatches. Works fine still.

Then if I copy and paste the object with the new pattern it will paste the object filled with the old blue and white dot and not with the new pattern. That's where it goes wrong!!! What is going on??? It never used to do that.

This happens in the same document and in a new one - so the pattern swatch is already there, besides that it shouldn't matter because it used to automatically paste the new pattern in the pattern swatches if it ws a new document.

I don't use spot colours, so that is not the problem! I change the colours of the existing pattern and make a new pattern swatch, I've been doing this for years, but it seems like the new swatch isn't working properly now. I'm looking for a solution not a run around.

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Correct answer Srishti Bali

Hi all,

We have tried to address this issue in our latest release v25.4.1. Please update Illustrator to the latest version to get this fixed. For more details, please refer to this UserVoice page ( https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/43713711-pattern-swatches-behave-unexpectedly-in-25-3-1 )

Please feel free to reach out if you still need assistance, we'd be hapy to help.

Regards,

Srishti

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bleach027

Participating Frequently

Hello everyone,

I am trying to create a pattern for my Vector Illustration course at school, and am running into some trouble. I know to create a pattern you can either go to Object > Pattern > Make or simply drag the artwork into the Swatches panel, but when I do so, my pattern shifts and some of the artwork that was set to 20% Opacity became fully opaque. I have tried many different things to fix this, including rearranging the layers in my Layers panel (as the white artwork lives on its own layer), grouping all of the artwork before creating the pattern, etc. and nothing seems to be working. Below is a photo of my Layers panel, one tile of artwork that I wish to turn into a pattern, and what the artwork looks like after I create the pattern and open it up in the Pattern tool. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? Any help (quickly!) would be much appreciated as I need to turn this in as soon as possible!

Thanks in advance.

Ton Frederiks

Braniac

As I understand this was not build with the pattern tool, but dragged to the swatches panel and then double clicked to open it with the pattern tool?

Before dragging, did you create a rectangle the size of your pattern tile with no fill no stroke at the bottom of your objects?

bleach027

Participating Frequently

Correct, it was not built with the Pattern tool. It was created simply as regular artwork on an artboard in Illustrator. Then I dragged the artwork over to the Swatches panel (or clicked Object > Pattern > Make) and what I screenshotted is what occurred.

I did not create a rectangle the size of my pattern tile with no fill no stroke at the bottom of my objects. I do have a bounding box, yet it has a black stroke and blue fill and consists of the background of my artwork. Do I need to create another bounding box with no fill/no stroke over the artwork, like on the top of the Layers panel?

Ton Frederiks

Braniac

Do your patterns have different names?

If you paste an object with a pattern into a document that has a pattern with the same name, the pattern from the document will be used.

emjaAuthor

Known Participant

Thank you for your response. That is definitely not the problem, because I have never in my life given a pattern swatch a name (or a colour swatch for that matter). I have been using Illustrator for about 20 years now and have never ran into this problem before.

I think the problem is with the user defined colours actually, because when I copy the user defined colours into the pages/ specific file colour swatches I have no problems with anything colour or pattern related.

Which means that for some reason the user defined colours are no longer working, even after saving new swatches. As I said I have never named any of my swatches and never had any problems before. I just name the group of colours, not the individual colours. It would be strange if naming colours or patterns would be necesary. I believe something else might be causing some sort of glitch. The question is what.

Ton Frederiks

Braniac

If you don' give your patterns names. they get a default name like New Pattern, New Pattern 2, New Pattern 3.

Copy an object with a pattern with one of these names in a document that has a pattern with the same name, will result in the pattern from the document you paste into.

It is useful to give your patterns unique names to avoid these conflicts.

emjaAuthor

Known Participant

I don't know if the problem is with the pattern swatches our with the colours. I save my colour swatches per project (not per file), so when I need colours I open up user defined colour swatches.

I can use them to colour anything, but when I copy paste a pattern using the user defined colours it swithes back to the first colour combo I ever used to make that pattern.

If I copy the colours into the new pages swatches (don't know what to call it) it works fine.

This is strange and it would not be very efficient to copy paste all user defined swatches into each page file I'm working on.

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F.E.5E15

Participating Frequently

I made the attached pattern that I cannot scale, nor change. When I drag it out of the swatches, it looks partly black. Does anyone know what causes this? Also problem with scaling objects. Your answer/help is appreciated very much.

Ton Frederiks

Braniac

Scaling the pattern when an object is filled with it is done with the option Transform Patterns checked in the Scale tool dialog.

Or with the Transform Pattern only checked in the Transform panel. And there is an option Transform Pattern Tiles in the Preferences.

Changing the pattern should be possible by double clicking the pattern swatch in the Swatches panel.

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F.E.5E15

Participating Frequently

Thank you so much for your answer. But I tried all the things I usually do, but I keep having this problem with turning some parts of the pattern in swatches to black. Very strange.

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