Pasting symbols now creates unique symbols instead of instances of the original symbol
Copy-pasting a symbol —whether individually or by using the paste to all artboards command — now creates a new symbol instead of creating instances of the original symbol. Alt-dragging the symbol to a new artboard creates a new instance of the original symbol as expected.
This seems to be a new bug, as I can't recall ever having this issue before. Thanks for checking into it!
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Please accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.
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Ton commented
Mark, I cannot verify your suggestion. If you can replicate it, please post a video here.
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Mark, I'll check that, Global colors and CC libraries are a bad combination.
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Mark Chambers commented
I am suggesting that Global color swatches could be the root cause of the problem. Your vector symbols contain colors. If those colors were "Global", and they were born in a color profile different than what your current document is using, then you can expect duplication in anything using that swatch — be it a paragraph style, graphic style, or symbol.
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Mark, are you talking about the same problem? This is about Symbols duplicating, you mention styles with global colors from CC libraries (which is also buggy).
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This seems to happen sometimes, but not always, even in the same document. I just found one cause: color. If your style is using a "Global" color, copy/paste duplicates. If you convert the color to show its values, and redefine the style, copy/paste no longer causes duplicates.
I have experienced a similar problem regarding copy/pasting objects which have no style. The color swatch is copied back into the document as a different color, prompting you to choose what to do: Merge Swatch or Add Swatch. So the core of this bug is likely color swatches.
I would give the developers the further hint that this occurs when creating a global color swatch in a CMYK document, adding the swatch to a CC Library, and using that color again in an RGB document. At least that is what I am doing which seems to cause this issue.
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Eric Bryant
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I am having this same issue
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Alexey Korepov commented
"life is pain" © :)
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Ricardo
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it happens all the time... ALL THE TIME.. drag and droping or copy pasting via keyboard. It duplucates the simbol instead of the instance
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I have same problem with fresh Illustrator version not every time, but randomly very often when copying symbols, here is thread about this: https://forums.adobe.com/message/10543855#10543855
Also here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2368949 is same bug report.
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Neat
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Update: so it appears the issue is isolated to one specific symbol in the file I'm working with. No idea what could be triggering it. The symbol in question is a header that contains an outlined version of a logo that I converted to a symbol and a dotted line. Nothing too extraordinary about either of them besides the logo symbol having a lot of components because there's a small illustration next to it.