So I'm taking it no one else is seeing this? Can someone/anyone confirm or deny?

Apply a named graphic style to an object - copy and paste that object on the artboard - does another instance of the graphic style appear in the graphic styles panel?

I just want to know whether it's just me seeing this behaviour or whether I need to log this as another bug that needs fixing.

Les

Thanks Monika, not what I wanted to hear (as it's always easier to rail against the machine), and I read your linked post, but don't think it offers any solutions for my particular situation, sadly . Those seemed to be legacy docs whereas this happens for me on shiny, brand spankin' new docs! And I don't see the lag that those posters were experiencing.

Strange thing is it acts the same on the 2 machines I run (a MacPro and a 27" Imac) both running 10.6.8 (I'm taking it you run the same OS?)

But again, thanks for taking the time to respond

Cheers

Les

Sorry Kurt, sleep intervened! But after playing with this once more this morning, I think I've narrowed it down to it's being only associated to my set of default styles in my startup CMYK.ai file. I'll attach a couple of screen shots so you can see what I was seeeing. But if I build new styles from the ground up, I can't reproduce the behaviour. So will rebuild my startup file (relatively simple solution).

Unfortunately I don't have general access to any server that I can upload the file to, that is if you still would like to take a look? (if you know a free service where I can upload a  file and paste the URL here please let me know and I'd be happy to do so).

Thanks again you guys for taking the time

Les

Behaviour I was seeing:

Well this is getting frustrating now!!! I can copy & paste any of the canned graphic styles in any of the canned "New Document Profiles' to my hearts content without overpopulating the graphic styles panel, but as soon as I customise one of these profiles (I start with 'Print') with my prefered swatches & graphic styles and save it to the "New Document Profiles' folder and use that as my startup doc the bad behaviour returns! Arggggh!

So can I ask you Kurt, Monika or anybody else who may be tuned in, do you guys have your own customised graphic styles embedded in your variously used startup docs? If so can you generate the type of problem I'm describing with this new infomation?

Les

Thanks for testing Monika, and glad it's working for you as expected.

Maybe I'll try this stuff from a new user account next to see if that will squash the gremlin! Although I don't hold out much hope as this problem exists on both computers I administer. And no, these styles are built from the ground up and not copied from old files.

And yes, I realise that they are just normal AI files, but the folder they reside in must have some special characteristics, no? Otherwise, how do these 'ordinary' files, only and ever, create copies of themselves when opened? Just trying to figure this out, as it's annoying the - insert appropriate expletive here - out of me at the moment!

Customisation is supposed to save us time!

Les

Well that's interesting, I never knew that!

Thanks Monika

I'm looking into that Kurt. In the meanwhile I think I've discovered what's causing this for me and I'd be curious to know whether you can reproduce this. If you look at the screenshots I posted above you'll see that the stroke is above the fill in the appearence panel. If I reverse that and drag the stroke below the fill and then 'redefine graphic style' the nasty bug dissapears! Go figure.

Curiouser & Curiouser

Les

OK I think I've managed to create a link to a file that exhibits the problem. Just copy and paste the rectangle on the page and let me know what happens in the graphic styles panel.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/id4hcixn5vhybrz/_niqE32epj?lst