Thumbnails in Layers always show full previews even when outline mode for the layer is toggled
This is relatively new within recent Ai upgrades.
Can we please revert back to preview mode ONLY for layer thumbnails regardless of how we view the layer on the artboard. This was changed recently. Why? If you choose to make changes like this, please make it an optional preference, as long time users probably don't like these changes.
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The bug is expected to be fixed in the upcoming Beta build
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If we toggle the mode of the layer with Cmd/Ctrl click on the eye icon, the thumbnail does not get refreshed immediately it seems. It does so only if you force it to refresh with something else. So it’s not that broken, but it’s not very convenient to force the change.
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Ah, I see what you mean now, thanks! Indeed, this got broken.
Recently some changes were made to make these thumbnails render faster, so I assume some conflict happened. Thank you for the report, I’ll try to bring some attention to it. -
At work, All jobs set up in Illustrator have an art layer, a cut layer, and a registration layer.
The cut path/object layer never has a fill or stroke. I CTRL/click the eye of this layer to show it in outline mode on artboard so it is visible. Upon doing so the layer thumbnail also shows an outline preview.... which looks like the object is stroked black. These thumbnails never showed outline mode, as I have been setting files up like this for 20 years -
Not sure I get it. Looks normal to me...
Can you elaborate please?
Also please share a screenshot of your Layer Panel Options dialog, to make sure the settings match.
