Copying Compound Paths From AI 21.1 to PS 20170425.r.252 Fail

[graysonh79839146]

I have two, non-touching objects, no-color, no-fill, in Illustrator. I can copy the objects into Photoshop as paths independently, but they won't be aligned properly.

If I group the two objects, then copy + paste as paths into Photoshop, I occasionally get a good hit. (Path 1, below.)

If I turn the two separate, Illustrator objects into a compound path, then copy and past into Photoshop as a path, I get a blank path with no artwork in it — that is, nothing in the preview or selectable. There's nothing there. CMD+click doesn't even yield a "this path is too small" error. Nothing.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I cannot reproduce the issue.

What happens if you paste as Smart Objects?

Does the path have a Stroke in Illustrator?

[graysonh79839146]

Good questions. Sorry. Fails with and without stroke. With stroke it sometimes fails in a novel way -- it creates a compound path on the inside and outside of the stroke. Can paste as a Smart Object (I think as a Layer Object) and use that as a workaround to make a selection.

With the simple objects I had, it was easy to work around by ungrouping and releasing the compound path in AI, then selecting both objects in AI and copying and pasting them into PS. But, if there's a new quirk related to what happened (and it's not just a corrupt file or object), these workarounds aren't addressing it.

(In other words, I managed to get something to work, but not the proper workflow.)

[c.pfaffenbichler]

As I mentioned I could not reproduce the issue, could you provide the ai-file?