Originally posted by erniesthings:
Hey all,
I know that you can drag layers from 1 document to another in Photoshop, but I seem to be unable to do this in Illustrator CS. Is this even possable? I'm just want to make some uniform changes to a bunch of Illustrator files. I thought dragging and dropping would keep the placement consistant. Copying and pasting just places it in the middle of the screen. I have a bunch of documents that a client decided to change the look of after I've completed everything. I'm just trying to keep things uniform. Thanks for all your help.
Ernie
There are two special functions in Illustrator: Paste in Front cmd-F, and Paste in Back cmd-B. These two special "pastes" differ from cmd-V in that each pastes into the same x/y coordinates as the coordinates of the objects when copied, either in the same document or a new one. Additionally, if one or more objects are selected in the destination document before the paste is executed, then the objects on the clipboard will appear immediately in front of the pre-selected objects with cmd-F, and will appear immediately in back of the pre-selected objects with cmd-B. If there is no pre-selection of objects then cmd-F will place clipboard objects all the way in front, and cmd-B all the way in back.
If you check the "Paste remembers layers" item in the layers palette dropdown menu, then objects from one or more layers will find/create their respective layers when pasted.
Using both the "remembers" and the cmd-F and cmd-B should effectively give you the layer duplication you seek.
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