Mysterious Copy/Paste issue

Cat Weeks

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- November 8, 2017 at 8:19 am #99453
  
  Cat Weeks
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  I’ve scoured the entire internet with no luck. I’m hoping you folks can help me out.
  I have a Paragraph Style for up and down arrows to be used in a table (to reflect positive and negative change). The main color is black, but I have a GREP style that defines it if is an up arrow, apply Character Style ‘Green’. If it is a down arrow, apply Character Style ‘Red’.
  
  The GREP works fine, but for one of my team members, when copying the table and pasting into Photoshop, the arrows are black. Even though they appear correctly in InDesign. I’ve checked all his settings, and everything appears to match what I have (in both Photoshop and InDesign). But I must be missing SOMETHING. Nobody else on our team of 10 people has this issue. Only this one person.
  
  And it’s not a color profile issue in Photoshop. Other color elements in the table show up fine (blue alternating row fills).
  
  If he manually applies the colors to each arrow, then it works. So it has to do with the GREP style, or Photoshop not understanding the GREP style. I’m completely baffled. Any ideas? Any help is much appreciated. Many thanks!
- November 8, 2017 at 9:16 am #99456
  
  David Blatner
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  One possibility: Open the Preferences dialog box and choose Clipboard Handling. Is “Copy PDF To Clipboard” selected? (It probably should be.)
- November 8, 2017 at 9:42 am #99457
  
  Cat Weeks
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  Yup, it is indeed selected.
- November 8, 2017 at 1:57 pm #99471
  
  Cat Weeks
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  More info:
  
  If I take my cursor and select one of the arrows, it shows as black selected in the Swatches panel (even if it isn’t due to the GREP style). But if I highlight it again, it shows the correct color selected in the swatches panel. Wondering if this has something to do with it, but don’t know how or why.
- November 9, 2017 at 7:22 pm #99505
  
  Lindsey Martin
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  Are you using char and para styles in Photoshop?
- November 10, 2017 at 1:56 pm #99525
  
  Cat Weeks
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  No, just in InDesign
- November 10, 2017 at 2:26 pm #99527
  
  Cat Weeks
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  You can disregard this now. We didn’t solve the problem but we changed our process and it’s no longer relevant. Thanks!
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