How is this not fixed yet... I can't export my asset that is clipped neatly to its needed size without 5 extra steps. Please fix!

I don't do a huge amount of exporting of bitmaps from AI, but I just discovered the most asinine behavior in Export for Screens: it saves bitmaps (JPGs, PNGs) WITH the space that has been cropped by a vector mask, which makes NO sense at all. If I cropped it, I almost 100% want it THAT SIZE. If I wanted extra space around it, I can easily create that by adding a transparent vector rectangle to the grouped object. As it is, the current functionality is almost useless when exporting a masked element.

I want to Rasterize object/image on clipping mask
When rasterizing an any object that has a clipping mask, the resulting rasterized object includes the area of all items in the selection, even tho its masked. My newly rasterized image could be 20 inches long but my clip was only an inch. I would like the option to clip the newly created raster object to clipping area bounds. I know i can do this in photoshop but it defeats the purpose of rasterizing inside AI.

The straight up export of a PNG or even Export to screens fails to export WYSIWYG. The clipping masks do not hold. Export to JPG, Tiff, PDF, fine. Export to PNG, artwork masked off shows up in the export. This bug began in 2015.3 and persists into the latest 2018? CC just released. The preview in the PNG export dialog looks fine. The final file does not match it however.

This bug has existed for as long as Asset Export... recently upgraded to CC2018. Nope, still there.

Such laziness. Adobe get our money, year in year out with CC. Bugs like this, unfixed forever, feel like the compnay giving the middle finger to its userbase.

After the development of Illustrator have been outsourced to India things have gone wild. Is it a different culture of programming, testing, management? Or just a cliché "indian code" ruining my beloved designer tool? What the heck is going on? For the rest of you fellow designers wondering what have happened to the product - just read the "about illustrator" popup

Broadly speaking, the whole point of graphic software is to CREATE and EXPORT your graphics. Everything your team builds should be in service of those two fundamental objectives.

Am I missing something here? How is this not fixed yet? Have we any updates from Adobe? I've been reading some threads where this has been discussed for over a year? This is ridiculous. Adobe, please, for the respect of your talented, intelligent and paying customers - please fix this. Affix a real deadline, don't just say "soon". A real date - a real deliverable.

See thread below posted by @Chris Johnston - this is beyond absurd. I get more frequent updates from video game companies than I do from my 600$+/year professional software supplier.

This isn't a game to us, we need this to work efficiently. Pro tools require pro service.

https://forums.adobe.com/message/8843544#8843544

This is an important feature for the way we are using Illustrator.

This is an important feature for the way we are using Illustrator.

See this post
https://forums.adobe.com/message/8843544#8843544

Please fix this. It should have been in the first release.

+1 I've been waiting for a solution to this for a long time. Object > Crop Image goes part the way there, but simply dragging a masked image to the Asset Export panel and exporting to a raster format would be ideal!

There is no need in any "Options" it must be a standard behavior.

The issue reporting system, where the issue is reported, ignored, saved to be not reviewed again without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for a year and recycled as firelighters is not the best way of doing things.

Taking the major flaw issue for a "behaviour" as well as waiting, till after 3 years after release of the broken feature people start to vote for it to be fixed, is a kind of redundant and passively aggressive against your users, design professionals.

more comments here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2174453

Hi Alex,
Thanks for reporting the concern,
this is an old behavior, we have logged the concern and tracking with internal id AI-4210302

Regards,
Hitesh Sharma

Yes please, kill this old bug. Feature is useless like this.

+1 Please fix, now falling back to fireworks

+1 Indeed a major flaw in the export system, making it practically useless and obsolete. This problem has existed since the launch of the Export Assets system and it's crucial for ANY webdeveloper/designer to export ONLY the clipped area, not any extra's.

This bug also appears when "Export for screens"