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Hi Michael,

I have been giving some thought as to why the Group feature is not proving to be as intuitive for me as everything else in MoI is.

I think it is because I see Groups as an organization feature, rather than an operational feature.

That is to say, I rarely want to operate on the Group itself but most always on objects in the group.

I know I can control-click on an object in the group and it selects just the object but I think that change is the source of my problems.

Perhaps you could have an option to "invert" that behavior.

With the "inversion" option active, control-clicking an object in the group would select the group, while "normal" clicking would be as it was prior to groups, it would just select the object clicked on.

I think having the option would solve most every problem I have had with groups.

Another thought.

Thanks.

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

re:
> With the "inversion" option active, control-clicking an object in the group
> would select the group, while "normal" clicking would be as it was prior to
> groups, it would just select the object clicked on.

Are there any examples of other programs that have this behavior with groups?

- Michael

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Hi danperk, it's cool to see the cross hatching getting used!

> Has the copy Ai and Copy PDF to clipboard changed since version 4?

Not much.

What happens if you open the AI file made by Save As, then inside Illustrator select all and copy/paste into a new page do you see the same kind of layer mutation?

It seems to be something that Illustrator does when pasting.

Looks like there is a setting in Illustrator that you need to change so it won't merge all the layers when pasting:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/18438/how-to-preserve-layer-settings-when-copying-between-files

On the Layers panel, there is a little arrow in the upper right corner, click on it and pick the menu item "Paste Remembers Layers".

- Michael

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Thanks Michael!

I deleted my post when I remembered the 'Paste remembers layers' setting. That was late last night, but you were on it!


Thanks for for best and fastest support in software development!

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