[Brian Bishop]

Thanks for reading my question. I am trying to copy an object and paste it at an offset repeatedly. My version of Illustrator and Indesign do not have Step and Repeat in the edit menu, or anything like it. (Illustrator 12.0.1, its labeled CS2 whatever that menas and Indesign 4.0.5 — I lied, my version of Indesign does have it, I didn’t look as thoroughly when I booted that after failing to find it in Illustrator).

That is why I was perplexed. I did experiment with the Move command under the Object>Transform>Move hierarchy and that is reasonably similar except it does not allow you to enter a number of copies but only make a single copy. Then by using the Repeat Transformation command, you can accomplish a step and repeat. Not to hard and I only needed about 20 repeats so fine for now.

I’ve been running CAD and not graphic design and step and repeat or repeated copy with specified offsets is just par for the course. Now that I’m running Illustrator again for a project I seem to recall this workaround but it took me a search of your forum and some experimentation. That is what I get for being rusty.

Brian

PS had a question about choosing simulated metallic colors and whether that is possible but its so off topic I’ll post separately.