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Samuel 3s3s3
Inspiring
December 14, 2021
Answered

Disable expanding Text Appearance when copy&paste text with Appearance.

  • December 14, 2021
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Hi there,

I have had an issue with the Appearance functions with text for quite a long time, tried to search for a solution but seems I am the only one who has this issue.

When I applied the extra new color(eg. white) to the text (area/point text are same),  and convert it to Rectangle in Appearance effect to have an automatic Variable white background effect which followed the text size length.
And when copy&paste this text, the new color Rectangle will become a individual path and the text has been duplicated.

Before Copy:

 Close-up to applied effect.
 This effect is done by only 1 object.


Pasted:

But every time I copy this area/point text and paste it, the new fill Rectangle will expand to a solid path.

  Appearance has been expanded to 3 objects:
 The 2 texts on the top and bottom are the same, repeated. The path is the white background.

But somehow holding option key drag is working, but it is annoying I can't copy and paste it to different files.


Here attached my Clipboard Handing setting. Maybe I have some setting related to this issue?


Version:

Adobe Illustrator 26.0.2
System:
MACOS Big Sur 11.2.3

Thanks all.

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Correct answer Samuel 3s3s3

Thanks! Can confirm it is some clipboard "enhancing" software's fault causing this issue.

The one I was using is Yippy, after closing the software all things went smooth now.

 

Thank you and have a great day!

1 reply

Monika Gause
Brainiac
December 14, 2021

You can try and turn off the SVG option. Sometimes it causes weird errors.

 

But then: do you have anything installed in your system that "enhances" the clipboard?

Samuel 3s3s3
Samuel 3s3s3AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
December 15, 2021

Thanks! Can confirm it is some clipboard "enhancing" software's fault causing this issue.

The one I was using is Yippy, after closing the software all things went smooth now.

 

Thank you and have a great day!

Monika Gause
Brainiac
December 15, 2021

You're welcome and thank you for posting the details. Your post will help others.