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1. Re: pasting into Illustrator, why cant it paste above the layer I've selected?
Larry G. Schneider Dec 15, 2009 5:05 PM (in response to TF22Raptor2)If you have Layers A B C D and copy something from layers B E F from another document and paste it into the first document. Then the order will be A B E F C D.
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2. Re: pasting into Illustrator, why cant it paste above the layer I've selected?
JETalmage Dec 18, 2009 4:23 AM (in response to TF22Raptor2)TF,
This is not Photoshop, wherein something pasted usually requires another entire raster image on top of the preexisting one(s)--which is essentially what a Photoshop Layer is. Do not think of Illustrator Layers as anything at all like Photoshop Layers. They are not. When you paste something into a pre-existing Layer in Photoshop, you are not pasting another object; you're just coloring some pixels. A Layer in Illustrator typically contains many objects.
It would be ridiculous for a vector program to create a new layer every time you issued a Paste command. Perhaps an argument might be made for a "Paste Into New Top-Level Layer" keyboard option but, frankly, I would seldom use it. It is not arduous to create a new Layer first, and then Paste.
Select anything in your file. Instead of Ctrl V (Paste), use Ctrl F (Paste In Front) or Ctrl B (Paste In Back). The clipboard content will be pasted above/below the selected object in the object stack.
If you're talking about copying/pasting between two similarly-organized Illustrator files, be aware of the Paste Remembers Layers setting.
JET


