This is the Illustrator forum, that's a Photoshop screen shot. ... View more

I think the user's been drinking. And it's oh so nice for Wade to come in an insult everyone, without even reading the thread. ... View more

You dont' seem to understand... you are asking how to do what has NEVER been possible in Illustrator. What you want has NEVER existed. You are mis-remembering what it was you did apparently. ... View more

To release a compound path you select the object and choose Object > Compound Path > Release from the menu. That will result in a path for each area of the compound path. The ONLY way to release a compound path and get one path is if you started with one path before making the compound path. If there is more than one component in the compound path you will ALWAYS, under all circumstances, get more than one path when releasing the compound path. That's the way Illustrator has always worked. That's essentially what everyone here has posted. If you don't believe the experienced users... good luck! ... View more

d.cloud wrote: Maybe I'm not explaining it right. You aren't. If you have multiple paths, they are either one object seen as a compound path, or multiple objects seen as multiple paths. You can not have multiple objects seen as a single path. And I have no idea what "regular path" means. ... View more

Wade just gets pissy when anyone disagrees with him. He has a hard time accepting others may have experiences beyond his realm. ... View more

Wade, you are referring to non-linear editing.... as I understand things, that is something Illustrator can not allow due to the nature of vectors. The History Panel(s) are really only truly beneficial when it comes to non-linear editing (as you've described) otherwise they simply list undo steps. Since Illustrator can not support non-linear editing..... a history panel would be useless. imagine..... You have a history panel that looks like this: Pen Tool Click Pen Tool Click Bezier Curve Pen Tool Click Select Objects Pathfinder > Merge Object > Expand Pen Tool Click PenTool Click ShapeBuilder Tool Plus ShapeBuilder Tool Plus ShapeBuilder Tool Minus Set Fill Color Set Stroke Weight Set Stroke Color Now what happens when you attempt to edit at step 4? You lose everything after that step and start over. This is the same thing as undoing. You can not expect to edit step 4 and still retain the Pathfinder command. I mean, the objects that were merged and expanded would be completely different now. I can't even begin to fathom how one would even attempt to write logic that would allow such non-linear vector editing. With pixels (Photoshop, Lightroom, et. al) it's easy - "pixel at x500y200 is #000000 and 50% opaque" - store that as history, then change it when needed. You can not do that with vectors. The information that would need to be stored is much more complicated than a single pixel. Vectors are purely linear in nature. They are created in a linear fashion, and are edited in a linear fashion. Altering any single part of a vector image results in other parts being edited as well. You can't pick and choose exactly one pixel of a vector image to edit or store as editable content. ... View more

To date, no one has posted any valid reasons why a history panel is necessary. You can not have non-linear history in Illustrator the way you can in Photoshop. A history panel in Illustrator would be exactly what you've described... steps that undo would back up to.Do you really need a snapshot to tell you to go back one more step? In addition, it would be filled with Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Pen Tool drag Pen Tool click Pen Tool click Would that really be a useful place to expend Illustrator resources? ... View more