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October 8, 2021
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Saving to Creative Cloud is changing my patterns

  • October 8, 2021
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I have a HUGE question:

This has to do with repeating patterns.

Attached is a picture of 2 circles on a background (shield your eyes, it isn't pretty :-)). When I make the pattern, the inside of the 2 circles is empty and we can all see the background. When I pull that pattern out of swatches, however, it will color in that background. In this one, it's black. It changes depending on the pattern and the colors I'm using.

After countless tries to figure out what it is, it does appear to be that patterns saved to Adobe's Creative Cloud will have this happen, whereas if I save it to my computer, it will not.

Can anyone please tell me WHY?

Thank you so much in advance. 

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Ton Frederiks
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Community Expert
October 9, 2021

Yes I can repeat that.

It is indeed very strange dragging them back in a cloud document (when the cloud doc is closed and reopened) seems to mess up the winding rules of the compound path (see the attributes panel with expanded options). Looks like a bug worth mentioning here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com

66caseysAuthor
Known Participant
October 17, 2021

Thank you for confirming this, Tom. Lol it has been driving me bonkers. I feel some peace finally, understanding it's that, even without a "why."

66caseysAuthor
Known Participant
October 17, 2021

But I will check out how to report the bug. Thank you for providing the link.