For years I have used a technique where I create a vector shape and give it the Gaussian Blur effect, then creat a mask which crops out some of the blurred vector object. I could then go back...even years later...and select the vector shape within the clipping-masked object and modify its shape as required.
But something has just changed in Illustrator (I'm using version 27.0. I create the blurred-then-clipped object as before, but after saving and quitting the program something is now very different. Opening up the file again, I can sstill see the clipped masked object, but withiing the clipping mask there is no longer the original vector object. What's withing the clipping mask is an image based on the bounding box...meaning that I can no longer modify the original vector object that was created.
Attached image shows the problem in the layers pallete. You see a clip group consisting of a blurred path and a rectangle. That is how this was originally created. Below it you see a clip group consisting of a rectangle and a group. After saving and relaunching, the blurred object is no longer a path but an image withing the original's bounding box.
What is causing this...a major issue for me.
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