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I’m hoping someone can clarify this for me. I used to copy objects from Adobe Illustrator with Cmd +C and paste them into Figma with Cmd +V, and they would arrive as editable vectors. I’m absolutely certain this worked before.

 

Lately, though, every paste comes in as a flattened image instead of vectors. Nothing in my workflow has changed, so I’m starting to wonder if I’m losing my mind!

 

Has Figma (or Illustrator) changed something recently? Is there a setting or workaround I’m missing? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance!

Hey ​@Brian_Olson, thanks again for your  patience!
 
Our team is still working with Adobe on this issue, and they need to review information from another preferences folder. The location for the preference folder on Windows is %AppData%\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator <version> Settings but the folder that you provided previously seems to be from %appdata%\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator\29.8.1.
 
At your earliest convenience, please locate and send us a copy of this other folder (for Illustrator version 29) - %AppData%\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 29 Settings?
 
You should be able to access this by copying and pasting %AppData%\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 29 Settings into the Windows search bar. All of this info should have also been sent to you directly via email, so if you could send this preference folder over in your open ticket, we would greatly appreciate it.

Hey All, thank you for your patience while our team worked towards a solution with Adobe! 

Adobe identified the root cause and now have a fix in place. The issue stems from a code change introduced in version 29.8.x and is not related to the recent SVG settings change. They also confirmed the exact repro: the issue occurs when the SVG “Minify” option is enabled.

They will be disabling the feature flag associated with this code change and will let us know once it’s complete. After the flag is turned off, you will need to restart the application and Copy/Paste with the Include SVG setting enabled to ensure it will work as expected.

You can find the setting under File > Export for Screens, and hit the little settings icon in that Dialog...go down to SVG and uncheck minify (until the fix has been fully rolled out by Adobe).

 

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