Improve how Links panel works with images placed in opacity masks
In Ai opacity masks are powerful, but behave as a parallel reality we don’t have any control until we go there. Many workflows are crippled because of this, but here’s just one.
Look at the GIF.
I have a document with two linked images.
One is just placed on canvas, another one live inside of the opacity mask for a path.
The Links panel shows me both images (fair), but I don’t know which one lives in the 'secret opacity dimension'.
Then, if I select an image in the panel and click 'Go to Link', Ai would select the image on canvas and move my viewport — but won’t select anything if the image is within the opacity mask.
It makes dealing with documents made by someone else (or exported from other apps, that just love to clip with opacity masks). much harder.
So, perhaps:
1. Mark the images that are put in opacity masks in the Links panel with an icon or text or both
2. Actually select the objects that hold the image in their masks when Go to Link gets pressed
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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