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I am working on a “basket weave” design in which I need to paste the same image into multiple frames with each frame displaying a different part of the image.
Is there a way to “paste into” multiple frames at once? I tried grouping them, but no go.
If you first make the empty frames into a compound path (object > paths > make compound path or cmd/ctrl+8) then you can paste into them all at once. The downside is the compound path can have only one appearance (stroke, fill, etc), be on one layer, and so on. And there’s only one copy of the pasted image, so you can’t change it’s position in one of the subframe without affecting the others. You can drag over an entire subpath with the Direct Selection tool and cut it/paste in place. It will become independent and keep the pasted image in place. But that might not be worth the effort.
Thanks! The compound path function should do exactly what I want.
I can’t watch these lessons any more. I get a request to access my computer.
If I Deny, video stops, if I Allow the box still covers some of the video.
What can I do?
Ian: Not sure what the problem is. Maybe try a different web browser? I don’t think it should be trying to access your computer.
Hi Ian-
I updated the links in this post. Try again and see if they work for you now.
Hi Mike,
Have you come across an issue with paste into then adding effects? In a greyscale document it makes extra plates show up, they don’t have anything on them but flight check in ID and pdf flags them. Unbuilding it changes appearance. eek!
A work around is to render the object in photoshop, however with a multi-page document x5 at pre-press stage it is too much to do in the time.