"Can't define a pattern from the current art"
Discovered in 29.8.1, also seen in beta 30.0.21. Both on MacOS 14.7.6.
- Draw some shapes. Select them.
- Object > Pattern > Make
- "Can't define a pattern from the current art" pops up instead of pattern edit mode.
Dragging the shapes to the Swatch palette still works, luckily, so I can get on with what I want to do, but what the heck?
oookayyy, further exploration reveals that it is something about one particular global color swatch?!? see attached file.
Margaret Trauth
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Del Vanderver
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This bug is so strange. I Choose make pattern and get the error and then I do it again and again sometimes it will work and other times it continues to give me the error.
I get the error whether I'm using swatches are just RGB values.
I'm using a MacBook Pro M2 with 32gb RAM and the most recent version of Adobe CC and Mac OS 26.
wish Adobe would fix this ASAP. This is an important tool is used a great deal and should be fixed sooner rather than later. -
Ton commented
Beta 30.0 104 gives me the message: "Can't define a new pattern from the current art."
Click OK and try it again and it works. Try it in a new file and it works. Close the beta and try it later, stops working. Click OK and try it again and it works. and so on. -
Works fine for me in Beta 30.0.0.91 on Windows 10...
