How to stop illustrator adding a mask when placing items ?

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May 23, 2022
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So I'm placing many items onto an artboard in illustrator. The problem is that when you place items illustrator adds extra boxes around the drawing with no easy way to get rid of them.

You can click release mask, then ungroup then manually delete each mask but we are placing hundreds of items and this takes forever.

There must be a simple solution to stop this?

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Mejor respuesta de Ton Frederiks

Maybe your script can do a copy and paste.

You can also add your vote here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/45031159-embedding-linked-illustrator-content-should-embed

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

You may create a simple action that would delete all clipping paths in one shot.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

If you place an Illustrator file embedded it will place the PDF version, which causes all effects to be expanded and layers to be lost and additional clipping paths as a bonus.

Copy and paste with Paste Remembers Layers is a better option.

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defaultuxur86aeed3jAutor

Known Participant

Hi,

thanks for the explanation, copy and pasting is not a practical solution for me, I'm actually using a script to place the items and copy and pasting would take far too long.

jane-e

Community Expert

@defaultuxur86aeed3j wrote:

I'm actually using a script to place the items and copy and pasting would take far too long.

For testing purposes, can you start a new file, then choose File > Place to see if you still get the extra "boxes"?

File > Place puts an image into the document. It is not editable in the new file and it may or may not be linked to the original file, depending on what was selected.
Copy and paste puts editable paths into the new file.

What do you see in the Layers panel before and after you run the script?

Jane