“I recently had to make many changes to labels (inserting barcodes for a large number of them) and I didn’t want to go through the pain of making the initial change and then copying it through to the other spots on the label sheet.
After doing some research and tinkering I came to a solution that has worked remarkably well for me and saved a lot of time.
By using a combination of the Distort and Transform tool and saving the changes as a Graphic Style (transform two copies horizontally the appropriate distance and then 9 copies vertically the appropriate distance) I was able to make the change to the barcode and populate it across the sheet in just one minute (once I’d really gotten into the groove of things).
I made a video describing the technique so you can follow along in Illustrator should you be interested!
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That’s all for now. Have a pezant day!
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