Bring back the ability to make Picture Clipping Files!
In illustrator you used to be able to drag any art in illustrator to your desktop and it would create a .pictclipping file.
The file would then be a ready to use symbol or pice of art preserve spot colors, Layers, Grouping, Overprint, Any Attributes! It's simple and easy to use and so easy to share with my coworkers! More importantly, because of how simply it operates, better than the current library/symbols functions. I don't understand why they would phase it out.
It's just not as easy to share standardized art through adobe's available functions. We get some new graphic artists that just don't know what they're doing sometimes. It makes training so much easier across the board to have this kind of thing simplified and available.
I haven't been able to make a picture clipping file in a while and the ones I use are getting old. Bring them back please! I still use ones made from 2017 daily. an incredible tool lost since illustrator version 25.48 and I've tried to get adobe to help me download that version only to be told it's not compatible anymore.
Amber At Anagraphica
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I remember a discussion about these quite long ago now: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/picture-clippings/m-p/10097180
I have no idea if it's Ai who stopped this, or MacOS... Do other apps still support picture clipping?
