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  1. Prevent illustrator from selecting an object by clicking on its shadow

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    Started (Available in Beta)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    This is finally addressed in the latest 30.8.0.7 Beta build, hooray!

    Clicking the soft area of a drop shadow (or any other raster effect region) no longer selects the object casting it. We can now click straight through the effect region to select whatever is behind it.

    Please check if it works for you and share if there are cases when you need the legacy behavior.

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    Abi Young commented  · 

    What in the world made you decide to allow an item to be selected by clicking its outer glow or drop shadow, and then make the only way to turn this off to also turn off the ability to select items by their fill? This is truly rendering the program unusable to me in some cases right now. Please change this so that things cant be selected by their shadow or outer glow effect, this is a terrible feature.

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