New function: Paste in Place without layer retention

Could we get a new Alt V paste-in-place operation that pastes without layer retention?

I've come to loathe object layer retention. It's broken a major part of my workflow. After all these months, I found no intuitive, streamlined way to avoid that pothole.

To copy multiple objects from multiple layers onto a single layer, you either have to a) copy them one by one in the original order, or b) swipe and copy into a new file, group to get them on the same layer, ungroup, then swipe, copy/paste back into the original file, and discard the interim file. This operation used to be quick, intuitive and painless. Now, it's a royal you-know-what.

YESSSS!!! paste in place with layer retention should be an exception or a special option.

Marc

+1

it is possible to use the right click on [one of the] selected object[s] in the gallery and move them all to current layer - but a keystroke would be so much quicker and simpler than using the gallery

The retention of layers does get in the way most of the time when pasteing in place.

You're correct about the rightclick menu, handrawn, but that's for moving the objects. I'm asking — begging, actually :) — for a copy function.

and I am with you 100% Alison

an example of the web functions are encroaching on the graphics functions in xtreme....

Yep, it is. <sigh>

I agree totally with you on this Allison!. 5-Thumbs up!

I trip in this quite often and sometimes forget that the layers designations are retained only to discover, later on, what I had done. Mucks up things really bad at times.

John

Mucks up most of the time. Actually, I can't remember any instance in which I've found layer retention helpful.

And I fully agree with Marc that layer retention should be the exception, rather than the default.

For Web pages with mulitpages and multiple layers it was very handy for me yesterday when doing updates. But editing webpages is not my primary use for Xara.

I thinking being able set it as User Preference and having a toggle icon somewhere would be a good approach.

Regards...