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  1. Clipping Path Dimensions disregarded when exporting JPG in version 28.5

    When using "File -> Export As" to create a JPG of your illustrator document, the size of the JPG includes artwork hidden by a clipping path and adds white space. Attached is an example where I've exported a JPG from versions 28.4.1 and 28.5. The JPG from version 28.5 added additional white space to the left, right, and top edges where artwork was hidden by a clipping path. This is not how Illustrator behaved previously. Is there a workaround?

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  2. Clipped images gets displayed on adjacent pages in exported PDFs in readers such as Microsoft Edge browsers

    When I place multiple images in a clipping mask, whether it is exported as PDF or saved as PDF, or even if I use Acrobat to optimize the PDF, some PDF readers such as Microsoft Edge will show the image at the bottom of the clipping mask. It becomes a color block displayed on the PDF, but these extra color blocks will disappear after enlarging the PDF interface.

    当我在一个剪切蒙版中放置了多张图片之后 ，不管是导出为PDF还是储存为PDF，甚至我使用了Acrobat对PDF进行优化，都会导致某些PDF阅读器比如“Microsoft Edge”显示出在剪切蒙版底层的图片，变成一个个色块显示在PDF之上，但是放大PDF界面后这些额外显示的色块又会消失。

    2 votes
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  3. Undo stack becomes desynchronized when making a clipping mask using a group that contains another clipping mask

    I often want to clip a group that already contains another clipping mask, and sometimes I accidentally use the wrong top object when making the mask. In this case, Undo does not return the scene to its previous state. Instead, various strange things happen.

    To replicate:
    - Create a group (A) that contains a clipping mask (B) and at least one other object
    - Create an object (C) to be clipped
    - Bring A over top of C, select both and make clipping mask
    - Undo

    The scene should return to its original state, but instead the inner mask (B)…

    2 votes
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  4. Clipping Mask Shows Some Bugs

    Hi
    I’m using Illustrator CC (27.1.1) and macOS Monterey 12.3
    When I use a clipping mask, sometimes Illustrator shows hidden parts of images that are inside the clipping mask (that should be hidden). When I scroll through the artboards, bugs change shape. (Generally, images inside the clipping mask are effected by the transparency tool, screen, multiply...)
    Looking at the attached files you can see a clipping mask with some shapes inside.

    2 votes
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  5. Intertwine not working properly, when objects inside get moved

    Intertwine not working properly.
    When objects inside get moved, the areas don't get auto-updated to adapt to changes.

    2 votes
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  6. Clipping Mask gets rendered wrong

    MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
    Just recently install the macOS Monterey
    Using the newest version of Illustrator 2022

    The clipping mask doesn't work after I zoom in or zoom out.
    It shows what is inside the clipping mask with different shapes randomly every time just like the images below. I have to move around the image to get the original shape of the clipping mask.

    It works quite well in Illustrator 2018 actually.
    But the Illustrator 2018 version seems can not be downloaded anymore.

    I think people should be allowed to download the older version which they found most…

    2 votes
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  7. Image in Clipping mask as well as everything on its layer disappears constantly

    Image in Clipping mask as well as everything on its layer disappears constantly. The image isn't displaced but when I double click where it is it shows itself in Isolation mode. Its terribly annoying.It shows as an outline but doesn't show up at all otherwise.

    2 votes
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  8. smart guides not working in clipping mask

    I have had this problem for probably the last 3 versions or more ... but generally, when I've masked a number of objects inside of a clipping mask, then double-click to edit the contents inside the clipping mask, smart guides no longer function. Or, more correctly, very occasionally they will, but generally not.

    I always update to the latest versions of Illustrator. Currently I'm using 25.2.1

    2 votes
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  9. Artwork in Clipping mask doesn't resize

    Illustrator 2019 on PC Windows 10

    When I resize artwork sometimes anything that's inside a clipping mask doesn't resize. The shape I created for the mask resizes, but the artwork 'inside' stays static.

    If I undo and retry a few times it will eventually work. I'm using the 'black' arrow to select the object and resize with the handles. I'm not using either of the white arrows. So I don't think it's a selection issue on my end.

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  10. Objects in a clipping mask do not respect "Object Selection By Path Only".

    Reproduction steps:

    1. Draw a filled shape.
    2. Use Draw Inside to draw another filled shape inside it.
    3. In the 'Selection And Anchor Display' pane of the prefs, ensure that 'Object Selection By Path Only' is checked.
    4. Click and drag with the Selection or Direct Selection tools in a part of the first object that does not contain the second object. Note that nothing gets selected unless you drag over the first object's path.
    5. Click and drag with one of those tools in a part of the first object that does contain the second object. Do not cross any of the paths…
    2 votes
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  11. Rasterization with clipping mask removes half of the stroke

    Create a dummy rectangle with a fill and a thick stroke. Select the rectangle. Go to Object/Rasterize. Tick "Create Clipping Mask". Click OK. Notice the outern half of the stroke is gone (clipped away). I would expect unchanged visual appearance....

    2 votes
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  12. objects behind clipping mask cannot move outside of drawing area!!??

    What is the point in a clipping mask if the objects behind it cannot fall off the drawing area? may as well use Microsoft paint to be honest

    2 votes
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  13. Clipping masks release

    When I reopen a document with clipping masks the masks are released. It is very frustrating remaking all photos each time I open to make edits.

    2 votes
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  14. Clipping Mask

    Every time i try to create a clipping mask, it says in order to create a clipping mask i have to have more then one object in the clipping which i do but it still doesn't work.

    2 votes
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  15. A clip group containing a compound path that borders an artboard often gets stuck as selected

    A clip group containing a compound path that borders an artboard often gets stuck as selected. Scaling the clip group (then undoing) causes the group to become unstuck as selected.

    2 votes
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  16. Unintelligible editing of objects with multiple fill and clipping path modes.

    1. Ai 21.1.0 Disappearing of additional filling in the mode clipping path. Clipping path und disappearing more fill in appearance object. In the attachment file with the example.

    Preview:
    1. screenschot - https://cl.ly/1g2Y3o281I13
    2. video - https://cl.ly/3D28070l060S
    3. ai file - https://cl.ly/2A2K2D2Z2E0f

    Best Regards.

    2 votes
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  17. Cursor Moving on its own After Creating Clipping Mask

    Often after I create a clipping mask the cursor will, on its own, slowly begin moving across the screen. I can see it flickering with each step. If I hit escape it will stop the cursor and return to normal. M1 iMac Sequoia 15.3, Illustrator 22.9.1.

    This problem has happened to me in the past in previous versions, I can't recreate it when I undo and remake the clipping mask.

    1 vote
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  18. clipping mask on an image and vector

    in Illustrator when I use the clipping mask tool on an image with a vector with a gradient, so that the image has an effect of opacity of the image towards transparent, and I press g to edit the location of the gradient color, when I return With the selection tool, all the other contents that I have in the workspace are blocked and I cannot unlock or move them, I have to undo the movement of the gradient so that everything returns to normal, but I still need to do the function of the degraded.

    1 vote
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  19. Clipping mask doesn't work correctly

    Working is going slow even if on M1 pro MacBook.
    And many other bugs...

    I think Adobe should leave to target end user/ ai works like express etc. and focus on creative people.

    All the best...

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  20. Inconsistent Print Results with Intertwine Tool

    The Intertwine tool does not appear to have consistent results from screen to print. A number of images in which I used the tool appear perfectly fine on screen, and even when exported to different file types (such as jpg), but when they are printed directly from their native AI file, the intertwined areas create graphical abnormalities. I've provided one such example below. The right shows the Intertwine tool failing to show the latch plate in between the hook's base and the hook's tip. In the left image, I've corrected this using a transparency mask instead. Please investigate and fix.

    1 vote
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