Pasting in place to different layers?

in Illustrator CS5:
I have a base layer. I have copied the one object on the layer, Comm C. My goal is to place it in exactly the same spot, one layer above. If I don't lock the original layer and PASTE IN FRONT via command F, it will only paste it directly above the object -but on the same layer. So - I lock layer 1 and make sure layer 2 is chosen. But when i go: command F, it tells me I am trying to paste into a locked layer (Layer 1, I assume.) But the only choice I get is to Unlock layer 1- which I don't want to do. It AI refuses to recognize that i simply wish to past to layer 2? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

No need to lock Layers. In the Layers palette flyout menu, turn off Paste Remembers Layers. Then simply select an object already on the Layer you want to target before invoking Paste In Front.
The command is "Paste In Front" for a reason: It pastes in front (in the stacking order) of whatever is selected (unless Paste Remembers Layers is turned on).
JET

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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.

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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.

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Before copying the merged layer to the clipboard try getting the layers bounds to get size and location.
var startRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS; // tell ps to work with pixels
var LB = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds;
app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll()
app.activeDocument.selection.copy()
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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Paste in Place in Photoshop CS6 is not working, am I missing something?

Hey there,
I've been using the Creative Suite since CS4, but still count myself as a beginner.
I'm building a psd file with vectors from an ai file. I recall that in CS5 and CS5.5 I had no issue copying a vector from Illustrator and then using "paste in place" to land it in the same relative spot on the Photoshop canvas. Today, my world has crumbled! Try as I might, I cannot get my vector shapes to "paste in place".
I am using Windows 7, service pack 1, and CS6 64 bit edition. Both Illustrator and Photoshop were entirely up to date as of today, and I'm in the midst of doing a reinstall, just in case that helps anything. I have already tried dumping the preference file, to no avail.
Having taken a look through the forums, it seems that Illustrator's clipboard has been handling data differently somehow, and I'm pondering whether this might be the culprit of my issue. However, copying and pasting in place within Illustrator seems to work fine, problems only arise when I copy from Illustrator into Photoshop.
I feel that I am likely missing something easy to overlook, and I would greatly appreciate some help.
Message was edited by: sccampbell
I asked a friend about this issue, and he says that functionality was never there. Is that true? Perhaps it should be, it would be extremely useful. Even though I thought I recalled having done this in the past, I guess I must be mistaken.

Illustrator has a different origin behavior. There is a global origin and a per artbord origin. you need to fix the problem in AI.
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Can you make a script for app.pasteInPlace() into master A in all my opening document?
I want to paste in place an object to all the opening document's "master A" by script, is that possible?
John White

Hi Jarek,
I am a beginner for script, it’s so hard to write this script by my self,
I found somewhere has this script which made by Laubender:
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Right-click Paste in Place ...

A simple ... 'Right-click Paste in Place' ... would be nice ...
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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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2) Copy the whole thing twice to new Layers (so you have 3 Layers);
3a) Select everything in Layer 2 (presuming you have black artwork on top of a white rectangle) and Edit>Edit Colors>Invert Colors, or
3b) In Layer 2, select everything and in the Window>Transform palette flyout (click the right arrow) click Make Opacity Mask with both Clip and Invert Mask unticked, then change the colour to black;
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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.

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Thanks for all the comments and help. I had been using the ''Paste Remembers Layers' but was looking for something like 'Paste in Place.' As you say, this has been a huge help. My only complaint is that the Help file gives fairly crude help in some areas, but I wish they would have a simple list of the type above, isolating specific work flow issues (I've advanced in Ai by the hard knocks school and a lot of wasted time). I can think of great ways that one could approach various tasks by combining steps into a simple pdf charts. Folks like you should set yourselves to such a task, beginning with the elementary and intermediate levels. People would be waiting in line.

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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
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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

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and so on...
Is this complicated? Can I find this Script somewhere?
I found an "open" and "save" script here, but with my lacking knowledge this won't help me...http://olivier.berquin.free.fr/indesign/indesign_2.html#top_open_document
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var myfolder = Folder("/c/...");//or Folder.selectDialog();
var myfiles = myfolder.getFiles("*.indd");
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