When coppying an Illustrator CS2 gradient into photoshop CS2

[M***@adobeforums.com]

I am used to using the old Illustrator CS and older Photoshop CS versions, but when I switched to CS2 for my job, I found I could not easilly copy and paste graphics with gradients into a photoshop document as before. It copies over as just a white box instead of the gradient. It usually gives 4 ways of letting you copy them over. either as a shape layer, path etc. and none of these settings works. Is there something I am missing?
any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Michelle

[H***@adobeforums.com]

Make sure your color mode in Photoshop is the same as your Illustrator document (e.g., RGB oe CMYK).

Under Illustrator preferences, make sure you have both PDF and AICB checked under Clipboard on Quit.

You can paste an Illustrator gradient object into a Photoshop document as a Smart Object or as Pixels. You can't paste as a path because that simply makes no sense. Pasting as a shape layer will simply give you the shape of the gradient object but filled with the foreground color you have set in Photoshop.

I just re-tested this with AI 12 and PS 9 (both CS2 applications), and the behavior is as I have described above.