Can't paste from InDesign to Illustrator, however, vice-versa works fine.

[RaCreate]

Suddenly the most simple copy and paste will not work from indesign into illustrator.

It will work the other way (can copy/paste) from illustrator to indesign.

Item a simple vector box (or anything else for that matter).

Drag and drop, also not working.

Literally NO paste option available in illustrator.

I restarted with new preferences.

I changed preference to switch off the SVG as per some other posts.

Still not working.

Making things very difficult for me, as that's something I usually do, with NO issues every few minutes.

Please help!!

Mojave 10.14.4

Indesign (creative cloud) 14.0.2

Illustrator (cc) 23.0.3

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[tromboniator]

Did you try a computer restart as well as the applications?

If it continues not working, a (short- or long-term)) solution might be to transfer assets through CC Libraries. Objects can be linked or embedded.

Peter

[Monika Gause]

Do you use a clipboard enhancing system extension?

[RaCreate]

Not that I know of. I assume that'd be something I'd install independently?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi Rachel,

Thanks for the detailed information. I understand that copy-paste from Illustrator to InDesign works, however, vice-versa it doesn't. That definitely sounds unusual. I would request if you can check a few things and share results with us.

• Try turning off GPU performance in Illustrator Preferences ( Go to Illustrator > Preferences > Performance and uncheck GPU performance).

• If that doesn't help, please check if it works in Safe mode (Start in Safe Boot mode for Adobe products on Mac OS X ).

Regards,

Srishti

[Chad Chelius · Accepted solution]

In InDesign, choose Preferences Clipboard Handling. Is Copy PDF to Clipboard enabled?

[Linda36280773bw5b]

Thank you!! This worked for me

[seagsdfdfah]

Thank you so much Chad, this worked for me. It's been doing my head in for days!