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CARTAGRAM / STEVEN H. GORDON
Steven Gordon at Cartagram applies
drop shadows to his map icons:
(left) original;
(middle) after selecting
ungrouped objects (or all
objects on a layer) and applying
an effect (it ap-plies to each
object sepa-rately); (right) after
tar-geting the layer or select-ing
the group and apply-ing the
effect (it applies to the bounding
paths only)
Copy and paste techniques
When you copy an object, Illustrator offers a number of power options for how the
objects are pasted, including Paste in Front, Paste in Back, Paste in Place, and Paste on
All Artboards. Note that none of these are affected by the ruler origin, but are positioned
in the same relative position to the upper left corner of the artboard. Here are some of the
distinctions:
• If you choose Paste in Front or Paste in Back with nothing selected, Illustrator pastes the
cut or copied object at the extreme front or back of the current layer.
• If you choose Paste in Front or Paste in Back with an object selected, Illustrator pastes the
object directly on top of or behind the selected object in the stacking order.
• Paste in Place is the same as Paste in Front with nothing selected, but it pastes to any
selected artboard.
• Paste on All Artboards pastes the object in the same relative position onto each artboard.
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