When I paste something on the artboard, the default behavior seems to be for XD to center it vertically and horizontally. On a tall artboard, this is INFURIATING.

It should be centered in the current view. Having to zoom out to see the pasted item and move it into position is just the worst.

I like how the paste feature, pastes into the exact spot of the copied element except for when you are zoomed in on an area of the page where the original copied element is not visible. I think in this instance the pasted image should just be pasted into the centre of the visible area.

+1 to this request. I do like that XD decided on making Paste in Place the first behavior to be implemented, but I definitely miss the "paste in viewport" behavior.

I would actually prefer that pasting work exactly like Illustrator and InDesign (paste in viewport by default), unlike OP's preference, just so I don't have to remember that XD behaves differently from Illustrator and InDesign. Plus it would be yet another shortcut difference between CC apps (option-cmd-v for Illo, option-shift-cmd-v for InDesign, and cmd-v for XD). The more consistent CC apps are with each other, the better!

It looks like there are other requests related to this feature:
- https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/13004661-additional-paste-functionality
- https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/13091559-paste-in-place

I totally agree...I constantly have to move around my artboard to find where the object pasted...It is such a pain. The object should paste where my cursor is, like in Sketch and the other apps.

This can be closed hey Klemen?

Klemen - sweet!
Elaine - you better sign me up! ;)

Thank you James, that works now :)

Klemen, I found this out and it is not clear but once you get the hang of it, it's ok. If you paste from anything, anywhere and you want it centrally in your viewport you must click off of your current art board (into the dead gray space in between them) before pasting and it will then appear centred in your viewport.

Thank you Vic and Elaine,

what would be more handy for me is if I copy a vector from Illustrator and paste it into my current view in XD that it copies somewhere near my view and not in the middle of the artboard. And also if you copy from another artboard from XD I think it would be handy to have two options - Paste or Paste in place as in Illustrator.

Thank you again.

Hi - If you copy an object (or more than 1 object) from one artboard to another, we try to make
the destination location similar to the original location. So, for example, if you copy an object that was 10px from the left edge and 20px from the bottom of artboard1 and paste it into
artboard2, we try to put it 10px from the left edge and 20px from the bottom of artboard2.

If you copy something that isn't already in an artboard and then paste it into an artboard,
we don't have any original placement information, so we center it in the destination artboard.

If this behavior doesn't suit your workflow, please make a suggestion in the User Voice "feature requests" section: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests .

thanks,
Vic

When I paste an object to an artboard it is pasted in the middle of the document, even though I am on the top of the document. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it would be handier if it would paste an object in the view you are currently working in.

Yes, this is really annoying especially when working with details zoomed in. Paste "losts" elements somewhere outside of the visible area.

I've noticed this too, from what I see the behaviour seems to be like this:

If you are pasting from an Xd artboard to another:
CMD+V = Paste in place

If you are pasting from another source (say an image from PS):
CMD+V = Paste in center/center of the artboard

I understand the benefit of the first, but for the second I think paste target should be center/center of the currently viewed portion of the screen.

It's also worth considering if pasting from artboard to artboard should give you the option of pasting in place or pasting centered in the current viewed portion of the screen, I'm thinking like Illustrators CMD+F vs CMD+V

In long web designs it often happens that I am required to copy an object from the topmost section and paste it in the bottom most section. Currently when I paste the object it is placed on top of the copied object. Ideally it should have been pasted somewhere in the screen that is in focus. That is, if the bottom portion is in focus, enable to paste it there.