Copying/Pasting from Adobe Illustrator 2020 to Photoshop not working in macOS Catalina

[onep1xel]

A simple copy & paste from illustrator to photoshop not working.

It shows an empty bounding box.

Scenario: all software – up-to-date, mac OS – 10.15.6, user – not happy.

RESOLVED (kind of) - artwork pasted from another AI file okay - cou;d be corrupt AI file.

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[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi there,

Thanks for updating us with the solution. It could be a file specific issue. If you have this happening with multiple files, try resetting the Adobe Illustrator preferences. Hope this helps.

**Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also take a backup of the folders in case you want to. Location is mentioned in the article.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[onep1xel]

This is happening again.

And, honestly I shouldn't have to reest prefs to fix this. 

[Savnac]

I am having the same problem.

[onep1xel]

This is now a recurring issue.

Again, pasting from Ilustrator shows bounding with no contents.

[kimr12864792]

I'm having the same issue and can't figure out a fix. Anyone have anything that actually fixes this issue? All software (Photoshop 23.1, Illustrator 26.0.2) is up to date, preferences reset.... help! This is driving me nuts and I can't get my work done. 

[Savnac]

I'm in the same boat. Empty bounding boxes when pasting to Photoshop. All software up to date.

[WayMagArt]

This just started happening to me too. Seems like it's been a recurring issue over many versions for the past few years. Think they would have done something about it by now.
I found that I can paste it into InDesign and then copy and paste it from InDesign into Photoshop. Kinda dumb, but at least this works.

[Anubhav Majumder]

Hello @WayMagArt,

Sorry to hear about your experience. Would you mind trying to create a text box in Photoshop first and then pasting it from Illustrator to check if it helps? Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav