P: Linked Illustrator Smart Object transform bug with update

This is an issue for me in Photoshop 20.0.9.
Was it ever fixed?

I created typography in Illustrator (very basic words in coloured boxes, no bleeds, no art boards) then embedded the .ai as a linked Smart object in PS.

I animated various positions and frames to make a nice animated banner.

Now I make duplicates of the original .ai file and change only the colours, so I can make various versions of the banners with different coloured type.

All I need to do is open the PS file, re-link the .ai Smart Object to a different coloured version and all the type will change colour! Right?

No. All hell breaks loose and my type layers scale and move all over the place. There's no logic to which direction or the scale. No change to any preference or option seems to make any difference.

So much for creating an optimised workflow for the typography. Every frame of animation for every coloured variant had to be re-scaled and re-positioned. Just awful.

Please work on a fix.

I am having this exact same issue, it seems to start happening about 70% of the time when I place artboards from a illustrator file with multiple artboards on it. And once it starts happening to a smart object it will stretch every time I make an update to the Illustrator file.

The weird thing is, it is not just on my computer. If I open the photoshop file on a different computer windows or mac the bug still happens.

If anyone comes up with a solution for this it would be greatly appreciated. Some of my files have quite a lot of smart objects and having to remember 'reset' them all individually is quite frustrating.

I have searched the forum for weeks looking for others having this problem, but no luck; so maybe I'm the only one! I have been designing a children's book with a number of full spread illustrations. I created the illos in Illustrator, then I place them as a linked smart object into Photoshop to further "paint" them. Most (but not all!) of the illustrations were built with bleeds in the Illustrator document, and were imported into a Photoshop window that matches the full bleed size.
The problem arises whenever I try to edit the smart objects in Illustrator. When I return to Photoshop and the smart object updates, it resizes on its own, to a fairly random size (usually 101 - 104%, but not always proportional; ie, larger in horizontal scale than vertical, for example).

Normally I can simply Command+T to transform, and immediately upon typing in the key command, the layer returns to its original (100% x 100%) size, and I simply hit enter to apply.
HOWEVER, after having done this. as soon as I type Command+T again for any reason, the object resizes to an INCORRECT size again.
I suspect this all has something to do with bleeds being added in Illustrator, but I can't confirm for sure. I have even tried re-importing the smart objects setting the crop to "bleed box" and the problem seems to persist.
Any help with this would be much appreciated, as this is not the only time I've dealt with it, and it has added hours and hours cumulatively to my work time.

Thanks in advance!

PS 20.0.3. Illustrator CC2018 (2019 is too buggy so far!). iMac with 32GB memory, AMD Raedon R9 graphics card (2048MB)

Thank you so much! I've been swamped. Let me know if I can help at all.

Thanks Russ. I will take a look and let you know if I have any other questions.

Eric, I also sent a sample file to Jeff just now. (confidential for client, so couldn't share here). Hopefully we can find a resolution!

It's not just bleeds. I don't use bleeds, just artboards in Illustrator, and this very same thing happened for me, not matter how I chose to crop the smart object in Photoshop

Hey, finally found this post, after making my OWN post about this! I am illustrating a children's book with a number of large illos, and have had the same issues. I am using bleeds in Illustrator, perhaps unlike ericloth. But like him, I have tried every cropping option there is. They all yield similar results to what Eric described.
Eartho suggested something I've used often in the past to address a different issue that is not a bug. When I resize a vector smart object in Illustrator, or edit it in any way that effects its overall dimensions, the object moves when updated in PS. I get that, and I've used his work-around.
However, this issue is different. At least for me. I can go in and edit NOTHING in Illustrator (maybe turn a layer off and on, or move a small point in the middle of the illo somewhere) and no matter what, when I hit save, it resizes in PS.
Oddly, whenever I hit Command-T in PS, the smart object immediately returns to its normal size, and I simply hit Enter to apply.
But to further complicate this, whenever I hit Command+T AGAIN, it resizes AGAIN on its own, to incorrect sizes (often not even proportional).
As I mentioned, I feel it relates to using bleeds (I don't mean simply extending off the artboard; some of these illos don't even extend off; but I mean using Illustrator bleeds. However I am even sure I can limit it to documents with bleeds. I feel like that's not always been the case.
Jeffrey, if you want me to send you a file (again, private for my client, so I can't post) I can send to you for testing.

I wasn't using dartboards in Photoshop or Illustrator in my tests. So maybe they're behaving differently. If you have some files and a movie that demonstrate the behaviors, you can email links to me at jtranber at adobe dot com