Copy-Pasting paths into Photoshop

#1 09-04-2008, 09:50 PM

I've made a vector-only AI file that I need to import into Photoshop. But when I press Ctrl-V in Photoshop, nothing happens. If I try to drag the path from Illustrator to Ps, I either get a message saying "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error [usBt]", or Illustrator will just crash immediately. In fact, sometimes the error message pops up as soon as I switch the window from Illy to Ps, before doing any paste operation.

I've tried playing around with different combinations of clipboard options in Illustrator, but nothing helped.

For now, apart from trying to resolve this error, I'm also looking for an alternative method to convert AI paths to Photoshop. Any help would be appreciated.

#2 09-04-2008, 10:03 PM

Additional info:
When Illustrator crashes on drag-drop, the last message it displayed was "Converting dragged items to EPS (AICB) format."

#3 09-04-2008, 10:24 PM

Wow, somehow I solved the problem on my own... must be some kind of divine inspiration.

The solution was to turn on the Printer Spooling Service; I had it set to manual.

I'm still surprised how I managed this. No thanks to the cryptic error messages for sure.

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