When it breaks for me, it posts to the original copied from artboard, not the current artboard. Really really frustrating when I have a looming deadline that was yesterday. Really, after 20+ years of this, I'm ready to learn one of your competitors. Stop with new features and make sure everyday basics work all the time. I swear Illustrator 6 was better than this.

It happens to me also. It doesn't matter the OS or AI version. It never worked, but Adobe keeps saying the problem does not exist or it needs more info. Please, stop being lazy. The Jorge Rosillo post is from 2019!!!!! Solve the problem or kill the feature.

I'm using a MBpro 32MB OS 10.15.7 and AI 26.1.

Again: it is not a new problem. It has been happening for years...

This is indeed very annoying. It seems to be related with copying elements from different layers, as it works when all elements are on the same layer.

I've just run into this issue myself and discovered how to replicate and more importantly, avoid the issue.

When selecting objects on an artboard by clicking/dragging a selection box around the objects, AVOID YOUR SELECTION BOX GOING OFF ANY EDGE OF THE ARTBOARD. By doing this, the Paste in Place will work as desired when clicking the desired destination artboard and using the Paste in Place command (Shift + Cmd + V).

Hope that helps 👍

James

Dear Adobe Team,

Do we have any solution for the "Paste in Place" issue? I have updated to the latest version and still not helping. Still facing the same issue. Please help. Thank you

It also happens with me. Pasting in place is an old issue. It has never worked fine.

I'm running the 25.2.3 version on a MacBook Pro i9 32GB OS 10.15.3.

There is a explaning video explaining bellow and I've sent more material by email.

https://youtu.be/KnrVzeaDsjc

Same issues in 25.2.3 on Mac os X 10.15.7 . So frustrating, Can copy and paste an object from one file to another file too.

Attached a screen rec for your reference.

I am having the same problem. You can test this with a file with many artboards. Copy an object from one artboard and pan away from the artboard, even select another artboard. You will very easily succeed in pasting away from the object's original place, even if you choose "Paste in Place".

It looks like paste in front might be locking to a coordinate on the artboard, instead of a page number. I see this when copying from a standard size artboard to a larger artboard.

Hey guys, I´m pleased to tell you that I found a "solution" to this problem, I concluded that the problem it´s due to some sort of trouble with the coordinates inside an illustrator file, plus some problem with the act of selecting an object.

So what I´m doing is the following:

if selecting all the objects in an artboard, with the selection tool, click-drag to select all objects from outside the artboard > click any object INSIDE the artboard (as if selecting a key object, which is gonna happen) > then CMND/CTRL+C or CMND/CTRL+X to copy or cut objects > go to target artboard and click inside it > without clicking anywhere else, CMND/CTRL+F/B to paste either at the bottom or in front of everything.

and that's how I resolved it, this applies either if you are coping/cutting-pasting into a single file with multiple artboards or if you are doing so from a tab to another, and of course, when doing this both artboards must be the same size.

Let me know if this helped you!

Do you have several artboards? It has never worked if more than one artboard was present. It will paste into the active artboard at the same co-ordinate (but you have no indication as to what the active artboard is or which one Illustrator sees as the active one).

paste in place seems to have stopped working properly?

Having already deleted preferences 5 minutes ago for a separate annoying issue, this one is presenting itself right now. WHY does past in place not work relative to the artboard? I paste in place from another document with the exact same size artboards and it pastes in random places, or it's placing the art based on an overall XY coordinates of the entire file. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any answers.

Doesn't work consistently when i try to copy and paste from one art board to another artboard. I need the shapes to be in the exact same spot on the other artboard, and not eyeball it.

Same thing when copying to all artboards. Sometimes it just pastes off in the distance somewhere...NOT on an artboard.

The same problem, pastes in random places.

in my case, it happened because when I updated the illustrator, from cc2019 to 2020, a dialog box popped up asking if I would delete the preference or keep it, and I chose to keep it, after that, my illustrator 2020 could not copy and paste correctly.

after trying various methods and failed, finally, I deleted all the illustrator preferences, manually, located in (Local Disk C - User - (User Name) - AppData - Roaming - Adobe - Adobe Illustrator), after entering, there was a folder that said the numbers that indicate the version of Illustrator that we are using, but first turn on the hidden file feature, because this file is hidden. What I do is delete all existing folders. Then you can restart the computer and try again to open the illustrator application, but my advice, after you delete the folder, do the uninstall program illustrator and install again with a creative cloud, after that try again. for my case it worked.

sorry before if my English is not good.

Same issue on illustrator cc 2020 now :/

If I create 20 blank art boards the same size and then create artwork on one, containing a background rectangle and a logo rectangle in one corner and then I use the paste in place command by using cmd+C on the selected items on art board 1 (the background and logo rectangles) and then use cmd+SHFT+V on each of those other art boards to accurately paste the items on each board it often either doesn't place, places incorrectly, can work out which art board is selected etc I have tried clicking on each of the art boards 'to activate' in advance of the paste or selecting the art boards through the art board panel to no avail... Please could you fix? (Also, it's a bit silly not being able to upload an .ai or .zip file here isn't it?)

Paste in Front (command F) does not always land the clipboard contents onto the correct artboard. It does most of time, but not all the time!

In this screenshot, I have the black background selected on the right, but Paste in Front pastes it on the left artboard that has no focus or selection.

Same issue on Mac. Very frustrating