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    Environment:

    Adobe Illustrator 30.1 (64-bit)
    Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 22H2 (19045.6456)
    NVIDIA Quadro P4000
    Reproduced on two separate Dell Precision 7820 workstations with identical behavior

    Issue:

    Since an Illustrator update around late 2025, Copy to Clipboard intermittently fails for graphic objects.

    Symptoms:

    Text objects copy and paste correctly 100% of the time.
    Graphic objects (even a simple line, rectangle, or ellipse with no effects, transparency, masks, or appearance attributes) fail to copy approximately 50% of the time.
    When the failure occurs, Edit > Paste becomes unavailable in Illustrator.
    Other applications (Photoshop, InDesign, Word, Acrobat, etc.) do not receive any new clipboard content.
    Repeatedly pressing Copy (sometimes 10–30 times) eventually succeeds, after which Paste becomes available again.

    Additional observations:

    The issue occurs in both existing and newly created documents.
    The issue is independent of object complexity.
    The issue is reproducible on two separate Windows workstations.
    The issue does not occur on macOS with the same files and workflow.
    GPU Performance ON/OFF does not change the behavior.
    Windows Clipboard History ON/OFF does not change the behavior.
    The problem occurs whether Copy is triggered via Ctrl+C or Edit > Copy.

    Expected result:
    Selected graphic objects should always be copied to the system clipboard.

    Actual result:
    Graphic objects are intermittently not transferred to the clipboard, while text objects continue to work normally.