New function: Paste in Place without layer retention

**amoore** · 25 November 2009, 04:38 PM

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.

**MarcT** · 25 November 2009, 10:47 PM

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

Marc

**handrawn** · 25 November 2009, 11:08 PM

+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

**Soquili** · 25 November 2009, 11:16 PM

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

**amoore** · 27 November 2009, 02:56 PM

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

— for a copy function.

**handrawn** · 27 November 2009, 03:33 PM

and I am with you 100% Alison

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

**amoore** · 27 November 2009, 09:32 PM

Yep, it is. <sigh>

**jclements** · 06 February 2010, 05:17 AM

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

**amoore** · 08 February 2010, 02:42 PM

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.

**jclements** · 10 February 2010, 04:09 PM

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...