This indicates that less than all of the items on that layer are selected. Instead you’ll have to select the item using you want to copy, using the Selection Tool (the black arrow), then in the Layers palette you’ll see the selection column (the one with the color squares in the screenshot) will light up with a smaller square than the ones in the screenshot. And if this is unchecked, you’ll lose your effects when pasting into another Illustrator document. However, there is a way around this, only you can’t use copy/paste. Normally I keep “Pate Remembers Layers” unchecked, because for some reason I like to specify manually which layer the item is pasted to. I suppose one could go in and apply the Apprearance to the layers in the new file. Maybe it has been addressed in CS2 or CS3. There is one catch though (at least in CS1): any Appearances must be applied to objects directly, not to a targeted layer.
Ta-da, now when using the clipboard either via copy/paste or a dragging & dropping to another open Illustrator file, your transparency and other effects are now preserved! As you’ll also note in the image, at the bottom of the menu you can click to check the “Paste Remembers Layers” option. See the screenshot at left of the Layers palette, showing the button to access the flyout menu (bet you didnt know what those were called!). This is actually quite simple, it’s just something that’s tucked away in a place you probably rarely pay attention to: Illustrator’s Layers palette flyout menu. Of course remembering this would be helpful, but I can’t count on that! Ever find that you are trying to copy & paste ( or drag & drop) vector art from one Illustrator file to another, only to find all your transparency and other Appearance effects gone? I have to Google this every time it happens, so I thought I would make a post for it so I can look it up for myself, and help a few others along the way.
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