Paste in place (In front of object selected)

I am running Illustrator CC 2014 and a useful tool that I go to frequently is Paste in Place (Ctrl + F). In older versions of Illustrator when using 'Paste in Place' you could copy an object, select any other particular object, hit CTRL + F, and the copied object would then be placed just in front of the object previously selected. Now, when I 'Paste in Place' it places the object in front of all, instead of at the designated place in a layer's order. Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is "Remember layer" checked in the layer panel's menu? (Monika Gause Sep 18, 2014 10:00 AM)
Ah HA!
I'm working through the Illustrator Classroom in a Book for AI CS6 in the Perspective Drawing section and had this problem. A very easily overlooked setting. Resetting the Workspace DOESN'T clear this. It's apparently saved in the AIPrefs file.

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I have been working with a couple of versions of a main VI. The original VI was given to me so that I could add additional functionalities to it. I had been designing the front panel of the latest version of the VI on a Dell laptop running Windows 7 and LabView 2011 SP1 using a monitor with a resolution of 1920x1080. My booleans, numerics, and plots on the front panel had always stayed in place after saving, closing, and reopening the VI. Once in the field, I connected my laptop to a cRIO9073 and used my laptop screen with a resolution of 1366x768 to operate the VI. I made some changes to the VI, saved it, and reopened it. This time I noticed that the front panel objects had become overlapped, resized, and generally rearranged. I tried fixing the objects but I noticed that they reverted back to the incorrect positions after saving and reopening the VI. I was successful in keeping the objects in position a couple of times, but when I would open the VI at a later time, the objects were again rearranged. This is happening on both my monitor and laptop screen. The original version of the VI, however, does not behave this way and I have opened it on both my monitor and laptop screen. In this version, the front panel objects always stay in place. Both VI's have the same window size properties. Could I have corrupted the latest version of my VI somehow? Below are screenshots of the front panels of both VI's.
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Hi Miguel,
It is possible to programmatically set or change the position of front panel objects. (for example: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/4D0DA06B43195B3F862572F3000AF2D3?OpenDocument) However, if you haven’t intentionally done that, it seems unlikely that it is the problem.
Have you tried copying the entire block diagram in to a new VI to see if the problem persists? While it is unlikely, you are right that it is possible for VIs to become corrupted. I’ve never heard of a situation like this except in the situation where the settings Tom had you check have been changed. Here is some information about those settings:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/7567EF257B9CFDF986256F630073228F?OpenDocument
Since there was no rearrangement when you copied the front panel to a new VI, you might try copying the block diagram a little bit at a time to see if there is some particular part of it that creates the problem somehow.
K. Johnson

Copy paste a front panel object to the very same xy location

Hello,
Just a practical question, but I would need this kind of feature very often:
How can I copy-paste a front panel object to the very same location? Lets consider I have a TAB container, and on the first page, I have a Graph. I would like to make a same graph on the second page of the TAB, but at the very same XY location compared to the TAB container.
Thanks very much!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

hm, I have just realized, there is an option to "duplicate page" for the TAB containers And it does the magic for me, creates the exact copies of all the objects

Is it possible to only select visible layers to copy/paste in place.

Hello!
I must be missing something. In Adobe Illustrator, when you select a layer (or sub-layer) to copy, is it possible to only copy the visible layers and not the hidden ones?
When I supply my clients with their final illustrator files, I only want to include the approved art work. Currently I make a copy of the file and go through and delete the hidden files, it would be much easier to just copy and paste in place the visible layers into a new Adobe illustrator file .
Thanks!

Here's an example of why, I may have 3 heads on a character. Since the character is copy and pasted into different boards, and scenes I build them once (think modular illustration). I need to be able to copy and paste, the talking head and not the Neutral or thoughtful heads. That is the overall goal of the post.

Paste in Place shortcut not working

My Paste in Place shortcut (cmd+shift+v) is not working in Adobe Illustrator CC (Updated) for Mac OS X.
It works when I manually press the command in the edit menu, but not when I use the keystrokes
When the shortcut is initiated, the software behaves as if nothing was pressed
It is showing as the proper shortcut when I view my shortcut preferences
When I try to re-type the shortcut in the preferences, it acts as if nothing was pressed
I've tried uninstalling SubScribe Plug-in
I've tried uninstalling Illustrator and then downloading again
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I've tried using another keyboard and that didn't work either
Please help me, this is affecting workflow

jwbrobst,
What about Cmd+V for Paste (centre of the view), Cmd+F (place in front in the same place), or Cmd+B (place in back in the same place)?
Have you actually selected an object to paste?
Did you reinstall using the full three step way?
Uninstall (ticking the box to delete the preferences), run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Cut and paste in place ... not in place

i cut and paste in place from a layer to an other and its not in the right place. it seems new since CS6
i have multiple artworks on my file but i could do it since then. do you now how to not talke care of it ?

Well that might be the way you wish it to work but it does not work that way and it was feature request that was overwhelming desired sothe behavior was made so that when you pasted in place it pasted in place relative to the active artboard.
Thought there are global rulers there are still artboards and if someone wants more than one artboard this would be expected behavior.
You have a choice of how you can do what you wish to do
1. you can keep the artboard panel visible and simply select the artboard you want to be active that will not affect then selected object or layer and theen either paste in front or paste in back or paste in place
2 select your object to be cut, then the object on the layer you wish to paste the object and then slect the original artboard by clciking on the edge of the artboard that will not change the layer you now have selected and choose one of the three paste options mentioned. this is actually a better choice because if you are working on that artboard you want it selected incase you need to bring it into focus.
3. You can cange the focus to the artboard you want by selecting in from the artboard list at the bottom left of the document window.
However though you are being a little cute about this it is I believe a feature request to be able to paste in place relative to the global rulers.
And I do think this is an oversight which may have been deliberately done as it is possible that it might cause a problem at the moment to paste according to the global rulers and refcous back to that artboard, I can see where this might be a delicate coding issue and instead of a crash it would be better not tyo have it at all as I doubt many people would work this way.
I think most people would work in a more organized way and want to keep track of what they are doing in a more conscious way and simply select the layer they want in the layers paneleven if it might be slower it would also be less prone to pasting on the wrong layer.
We also just had some one post about selecting an object on the canvas and dragging the selection dot in the laayers panel to the layer they wandted it now to reside.
They claim that is faster cut and paste, they actually said it did not work but it does.
Here's the link to the feature request page.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Don't be surprise if they change this behavior and there are many users who do not like it.

Bug: Front Panel objects relative position change when placing merge VI onto Block Diagram

I've posted a bug report on LAVA, here:
http://forums.lavag.org/Front-Panel-objects-relative-position-change-when-placing-merge-VI-onto-Bloc...
If someone at NI can reproduce, can I please get a CAR #?
Thanks,
-Jim
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Donovan B wrote:
Hi Jim,
After my previous post, I also saw this behavior, so I decided to do another test. If there are no decorations in the VI set to “Merge VI” (“Place VI Contents” for LabVIEW 8.5 and later) the controls and indicators are still not selected when dropping the VI from the Functions palette. I checked this behavior back to LabVIEW 7.1 and it is consistent throughout that controls and indicators are not selected. (Consequently, so is the fact that when decorations are present they don’t maintain the relative position).
I am not sure if this would be better suited as a CAR or product suggestion since it has been this way that long, but it does not appear to be related to the fact that decorations are present in the Merge VI. It does seem strange that the decorations are selected though. Looks like the best way to work around this is to drop the VI from the Controls palette. Hopefully, it’s not too much of a hassle.
Hi Donovan,
Thanks for checking in.
> I checked this behavior back to LabVIEW 7.1 and it
is consistent throughout that controls and indicators are not
selected. (Consequently, so is the fact that when decorations are
present they don’t maintain the relative position).
This just means that not many people use this feature. However, now that VIPM Professional makes it so easy to edit the palettes, I'm sure that others will start complaining that this doesn't work as they expect.
> I am not sure if this would be better suited as a CAR or product suggestion
since it has been this way that long, but it does not appear to be
related to the fact that decorations are present in the Merge VI.
Just look up the functional specifications for this feature and see if all objects are supposed to be selected.
But seriously, is there a reason that only the FP decorations are selected? Surely this would be documented somewhere, if there was a good reason for this current (IMO, buggy) behavior.
> It
does seem strange that the decorations are selected though. Looks like
the best way to work around this is to drop the VI from the Controls
palette. Hopefully, it’s not too much of a hassle.
That's not a reasonably work-around, IMO. It doesn't make sense to drop Block Diagram components onto the Front Panel. For example, this bug affects the JKI State Machine. It doesn't make sense to drop a State Machine onto the Front Panel.
So, I'd file it as a CAR/bug, and then wait to see how LV R&D feels about it. If they can find some valid reason for why Controls and Indicators shouldn't be selected, then that's fine (and hopefully someone will explain it to me).
Thanks,
-Jim

Paste in Place = differing results

Hi,
Could someone explain to me why (usually when pasting on a different layer) Paste in Place sometimes pastes the objects in the far top left of the document instead of where you'd expect ie...
in place?

I just had exactly the same problem... but slightly different: when I "paste in front" my object on a different artboard (same size as the other one) my object appears on the far bottom right (apparently just the opposite of you)... It's really annoying as I'm using that function quite often.
Strangely if I use "paste in place" it works fine... is it the same for you? I mean have you tried other "paste" functions?
I suppose it is a bug but I even after restarting Illustrator it stays the same.

Paste-in Place not working

Hello,
I have been having some problems with past in place for a while.
Sometimes this function works perfectly others when I copy (shift+command+c) and try to paste ex an icon into another artboard it simply pastes it in the same artboard, even thought I have the correct artboard selected.
Sometimes it simply pastes in some random artboard.
Do you think you can help out with this, would much appreciate it.
Thanks,
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shift+command+c? what do you have that set as? in my shortcuts that's Centre Text. copy is just command + c.
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Right-click Paste in Place ...

A simple ... 'Right-click Paste in Place' ... would be nice ...
cheers,
Gem

Maja,
As I now (mis)understand it, you are working in black first (artwork in black on an apparent white background), then you are supposed to have it in white on a black background, and lastly in colour on a white (apparent) background; then export it as a set of TIFF files.
If so, you may, after having completed the artwork in black (which I guess you have):
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It's been a long standing gripe that when you cut and paste elements from one PDF into another that the precise position is lost. Illustrator and InDesign both support this feature. Has this been addressed in the XI version?

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Is there a Paste in Place option for iBooks Author?

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Anybody got a "Paste in Place" Script?

Hi there,
I have no experience with InDesign Scripts yet, but a couple of tasks on hand that would be faster with Scripts. I only know Actions in Photoshop, so I describing what I need as it would be a Photoshop Action:
- Open all files in folder A (I've got 44 .indd files in this folder)
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and so on...
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Anke

var myfolder = Folder("/c/...");//or Folder.selectDialog();
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Loic

Programmtically Scaling the front panel objects depending on the Dispaly card resolution.

I have programmed my application in dispaly resolution of 1024 by 768. I want to deploy the same code on a machine having a resolution of 800 by 600. how do i scale down my front panel objects to 800 by 600 resolution .
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To get best control, you will need to do it programmatically. Using the property nodes, all controls can be moved and resized. Resizing is problematic, however, because there is no single method that works for all controls. The top level Bounds property is read-only. It should be used to make sure whatever you did to change the size resulted in the size you expected. You will need to search the control–specific properties for the one which resizes your control of interest. For example, the Plot Area.Size property changes the size of a Waveform Graph.
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How do you "Paste In Place" in javascript?

I'm seeing a problem when running copy merged and then paste from script. If there is no alpha component in the mask, it looks like photoshop internally crops the layer to useful content. Then when you paste, it pastes only the useful content meaning meanin it's translated so pixels at the top and left have content. This is really stupid default behavior. However, the UI has a way to work around this, you run Edit | Paste In Place and it keeps the translation component it figured out when running copy merged. Great.
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var selectedRegion = Array(Array(LB[0].value,LB[1].value),Array(LB[2].value,LB[1].value),Array(LB[2].value,LB[ 3].value),Array(LB[0].value,LB[3].value));
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