Functionality to change the standard drag option from Libraries to "place copy"
I would like to receive an option to change the default drag and drop functionality to "Place copy" instead of "Place linked". This will save a lot of time and hassle.
Yoshy
shared this idea
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For future reference, the mentioned related bug report:
Alt-drag from a CC library to an artboard to create a linked object doesn't work reliably
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48637481 -
Matt
commented
In Illustrator post-2015 the default was changed to add linked objects when dragging from CC libraries to the artboard. Please provide an option to change the default behaviour back to creating embedded objects by default.
Related points:
1. Alt select\drag each asset is cumbersome and degrades functionality when you only ever want embedded assets & use them a lot in workflows.
2. Even worse, Alt select\drag doesn't work reliably. Sometimes it works first time, but often when performing the correct actions it still creates linked objects, sometimes multiple times. Eventually (sometimes after 5 or 10 attempts at getting an embedded copy from the library, it failing, deleting the linked object, repeat) it does seem to create a linked object but the entire process is at best infuriating, flaky, and inefficient, and at worst unusable, because of this.
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The intended solution is to drag it with the Alt/Opt held.
This is not a thing one can discover easily, since Ai does not change the cursor when you drag and press the modifier, does not hint it when hover over a library item... a sloppy job.
And sure, while Alt/Opt actually feels like a suitable behavior, some would like to modify it and swap the deafult behavior. But alas, Libraries are made by aliens who seems to know nothing about how Ai works :/ -
MDN commented
Yep. That would be much better.
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Anonymous
commented
Yes. It would also save time and hassle if;
- when dragging from the library panel to the art board, the item(s) would appear instantly upon releasing the mouse (as in v.2017) rather then requiring an extra click.
- the item from the library didn't have an extra unneeded group around it (as in v.2017).
