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Objects just vanish when rasterizing inside a clipping mask (Latest Windows version)

Explorer ,
Aug 16, 2025 Aug 16, 2025

Okay, this is seriously annoying. In the latest Illustrator on Windows, if you rasterize inside a clipping mask, poof — your objects are gone.

 

Steps (super easy to test):

  1. Draw a bunch of objects and group them.
  2. Make a shape and apply a clipping mask.
  3. Double-click to go inside the group.
  4. Select everything and rasterize.
  5. And just like that... everything disappears.

 

 

If you leave even one object out of the selection, they don’t disappear.

But when you select all → gone.

 

If I only rasterize one object, or part of them, it works fine. But if I select all? Illustrator just deletes them.

 

This is super frustrating. Rasterizing inside a clipping mask is something I do all the time, and right now it’s basically unusable. Adobe, please fix this ASAP.

I uploaded a video so you can see how bad it is.😂😂😂

 

I using the latest version of Illustrator, running on a high spec pc.
I already tried resetting Illustrator preferences and even reinstalled the program.
I also updated my graphics card driver.
Still, the problem isn’t fixed.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 17, 2025 Aug 17, 2025

Yes, I can reproduce this (on Mac).

You may want to report it as a bug here (where the Illustrator team keeps track of problems and requests):

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

 

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Aug 17, 2025 Aug 17, 2025
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Community Expert ,
Aug 17, 2025 Aug 17, 2025

I couldn't reproduce this on Windows, BUT
in AI 29.7.1 and  AI 29.9.6 (Beta), this command rasterizes the objects AND the clipping mask, and the outer empty space is equal to the biggest object in the group. So, you have a single raster image, not a raster image in the clipping group. This looks a bit strange.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 17, 2025 Aug 17, 2025

I could not reproduce it as well. Instead I see the same behaviour as Anna described.

 

Something must be different.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 17, 2025 Aug 17, 2025

I can reproduce it when modifying your step 3 to only isolate the group, but not the entire clipping group.

 

Step 3 should be: Double-click and then double-click again to go inside the group that is clipped.

 

Yes, then I can see the misbehaviour as described in your initial post.

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Aug 17, 2025 Aug 17, 2025
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I did not need to group it. 

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