omake Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) EDITED to make clear file 1 and file 2 remained open the whole time, at the same time. Still think the problem is with the "embedding" logic. EDIT 2: now I understand the resource manager correctly, I can clear that description up... Designer 2 version available as of today, 2.3.1 methinks, MacOS 13.latest Ventura intel 2019 MacBook Pro 16inch 1. Open ai file download from domestika.org design course 2. Save to native file .afdesign we shall call this file 1. 3. drop in .psd files 4. make some art boards around all the assets (those already in the file, and those dropped in as PSD's) SIDE NOTE on STEP 4: (weirdly the objects within the ai file didn't appear to have an artboard at first opening in designer, a black bg in designer around all the files, but then dropping in new psds, they were only visible in the overlapping area with the including objects, invisible if dragged off the overlapping area of the original objects. So I had to make an artboard around them, then the document bg became gray (I later changed this since I didn't like that) but then I noticed in layers panel, there was only 1 artboard, the one I had created.... weird to me that there was an invisible "implicit" artboard from the original ai conversion/import? Let me know if this is supposed to happen? I have LOTS of ai files to deal with (as I'm sure we all do, sigh)... not just this project. 5. make a new design file, we shall call file 2, with several artboards 6. copy (command-c) one of the mb? embedded psd's in file 1 (resource manager lists the path of original file), but, "make linked file" is not available.! 7. paste into file 2. 8. click away until I am using pixel persona tools on the pasted in embedded file in file 2.... unfortunately, all changes I make there ALSO affect the embedded psd object in file 1. 9. confused I open resource manager in file 2 now. it shows the path of the same original psd object/file supposedly "embedded" in file 1.... Again, I cannot "make linked file", its grayed/ghosted/not available. But resource manager already considers it embedded in the file list, just as in file 1... on the other hand, since designer thinks it's correctly embedded, I cannot MAKE it actually embedded. So files can neither be properly embedded, nor linked in these two files. I played with another new afdesign file, dropped a jpeg in there, and it's fine, it says embedded, but the "make linked file" IS AVAILABLE. In the meantime, I will simply drop a new copy of the file from finder... but that sucks... b/c I Did some work already on a half dozen such objects in file 1.... which now is not copyable without "linked" editing behavior... I've done my best to be clear here. Hopefully this can be explained, or if not, squashed like a bug! Thanks for giving adobe a run! Things like this sorta suck though... sad face... Edited January 20 by omake clarify both documents remained open during this process; now I understand the resource manager correctly, I can clear that up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Hi omake, I could only replicate the issue you were having with the pasted PSD affecting the original document which i've logged as a bug, the rest I'm thinking may be related to your specific documents? Could you try this with documents not from this source? (I won't ask you to share those from Domestika to respect their copyright). Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omake Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 Okay, so I did this with all my own old psds & ais. Problem still exists, it has to do with adjustments of color and so on it seems mostly. However, the resource manager is weird again. the ai files show embedded without a path prefix, which I assume is correct. the psd however still shows the original file path. I did exact same procedure. Import .ai as a new file into AFD2, drop in a psd. Make a new afd file, copy paste psd from file 1 to file 2... adjustments reflect back to file 1, but this time I am not seeing the adjustment reflected in the finder on the psd as well. I think at one point that happened. I mostly solved this by CLOSING file 1 last time, and didn't have to redo ALL of my work thankfully. I suggest you guys try this. Make an ai with some strokes and text. Make a psd from a photo you get of the net or something. Then do as I have done. Technically this second batch of test files are also copywritten. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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