Thanks for the response Ton. My mistake- I was using Paste in Front shortcut instead of Paste in Place! Sorry to have bothered you. Steps to reproduce the technique (for those interested) are as follows: 1) Make a bitmap texture, place it in your AI doc, embed it, cut or copy it (either). 2) Make a simple rectangle shape, select it, check "draw inside mode". 3) Shift + Ctrl + V to Paste in Place. You can colour your bitmap texture graphic just as though it were a vector object, using the swatches, colour picker, etc!
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