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5 votesThe solution to that would be to activate a stroke if you want to apply a color to it, then to hold Shift when clicking a color — does not matter where this color is on a stroke or a fill. Illustrator then applies the picked color to the active fill/stroke, ignoring the source nature. There are two things to know — the cursor does not inform you about this mode (unlike the Alt-mode, should be addressed), and if you pick a color from a swatch — you’d get a screen representation of the color... harmless for RGB documents (if your color settings are in order), but crucial for CMYK documents (should be addressed too). Pleas comment back.Anonymous
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Currently, when one uses the "Release to Layers" command, all naming on the groups is removed and the resulting layers are renamed rather unhelpfully as Layer 2, Layer 3, etc. In addition, these new "Layers" are kept as sub-layers of the orignal layer which, when working with complex artwork, can be quite confusing. The current functionality completely invalidates good organizational practices and actually punishes any attempt at naming conventions when needing to prepare artwork for other applications (such as After Effects).
Ideally, when "Release Layers to Sequence" is performed, the naming already in place on the selected groups or objects would be RETAINED, rather than being inexplicably discarded. In addition, since the entire purpose of releasing to layers is to create NEW layers, these would automartically become top-level layers, rather than sub-layers of the original layer. Or perhaps an option could be included to retain current layer structure.
This would be extremely valuable for working between Illustrator and After Effects, as After Effects only recognizes top-level Illustrator layers as individual After Effects layers. The reality is that artwork received for animation is often not optimized for importing into After Effects, which means wasted time in prepping artwork for use between two applications which should have much greater interoperability (as is clearly possible as evidenced by the functionality introduced by the 3rd part script Overlord). Many Illustrator artists will use tons of subgroups that may very well function better as individual layers in After Effects, but the prep work invbolved currently is less than optimal given the current functionality of "Release to Layers."