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Placing and distributing multiple objects in Illustrator

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January 23, 2017
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Is there a way in Illustrator to import (File >Place) multiple objects and place them in a grid like in InDesign? In InDesign you use the cmd + shift (mac) and draw a rectangle, adding columns and rows with the right/left and up/down arrows. I have tried these steps in Ai without success.

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Hi Pascal,

you can get a similar result in Illustrator with some more step than in InDesign.

Draw an object with the dimensions you want for placing the photos, then select menu OBJECT > PATH > SPLIT TO GRID

So you can use the frames for the clipping masks

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Hi Pascal,

you can get a similar result in Illustrator with some more step than in InDesign.

Draw an object with the dimensions you want for placing the photos, then select menu OBJECT > PATH > SPLIT TO GRID

So you can use the frames for the clipping masks

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Which version of Illustrator are you using?

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not natively. there may be plugins that work like this but i'm not aware of one.

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Thank you for your response.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:29 AM, dougofakkad <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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Hi Kurt,

Thanks for responding. I am currently using the latest version of Adobe Illustrator CC.

Thanks for your help.

Pascal