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[lostseed]

Ive done this in Corel Draw a long time ago.

Say I use about a 2 inch square on an AI page, how would I get that
to repeat and scale the page? Would it have anything to do with making
a crop box around the object and formatting the cropping box to printer
settings? Which im unsure of, thats just a guess, nonetheless i couldnt
find anything on this.

Also will this cause my images to repeat in the document, or is there
a way to make it only print repeated, so that if I edited the 2 inch square
it will change for all printed parts?

[Scythar]

You lost(seed) me there, what is it you exacly want?
You want something to print several times on 1 page, or you want to scale something? ...

[lostseed]

I want an image to print several times on one page,
and If I modify the image all the printed versions will change.

[Scythar]

i know now what you mean (i think) and erm...
I have no clue, sry bout that. I never came across a similar problem, so i wouldnt know where to start.
Damn, and i thought i knew a lot bout Illustrator.

Again sry.

[lostseed]

Nah its no problem, I dont think many of the people using illustrator print as much as they play with it Im really not familiar with print settings and things like that since i havent used it for that until now.

[Scythar]

I do have a rather odd solution though:
make the image, make a "pattern" of it.
Make 1 big rectangle the size of your page and fill it with the pattern.
The beauty of this is that you can use the scale , rotate, move etc... tools on the pattern (there an option to check or uncheck in the dialogue box that appears when you alt+click with the tool).
Hope this helps a little