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Actually, Illustrator has been doing this since version 9. Here's a blog post I wrote up a long time ago, but that is still pretty much relevant to understanding why this behavior exists. :) Mordy

Sorry I didn't discover this thread earlier. Just stumbled upon it. The original issue that was raised in this thread is valid -- and is due to a decision that the Illustrator team made for CS6. Open any document in Illustrator, and from the flyout menu in the Swatches panel, choose Spot...

You can use Illustrator and an ODBC compliant database - but Illustrator's variables use a specific XML syntax - you would need to write a script that would export the data from the database, then convert the data to the format that Illustrator can use using XSLT and then bring that into...

Admittedly, it's a bit unclear as to what is happening, but maybe this will shed some light. Illustrator does have a setting called "snap to point" -- but it doesn't tell you WHAT snaps to the point, does it? Prior to CS4, Illustrator always snapped your CURSOR to the point -- not the point you...

Hello everyone! Hello everyone! Hi everyone, Mordy Golding here. I used to hang out back in the days when Print Planet was an email list. But then I must have gotten lost in the transition to the forums and well, I guess I got lost under this pile of stuff to do -- you know how it is. In any...

You can select both the mask and the contents of the mask using the Group Selection tool. That hasn't changed. Maybe I'm not getting exactly what you're trying to do? :) Mordy