🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi, James and thanks. I create maps for a newspaper. Each map has several elements -- text boxes, road symbols, street names, etc. Some items get grouped and some items are ungrouped. Because our maps are a set size, I start with a template box with dummy text and I scale the map so it generally fits the box area. Eventually I use the template box as my mask. The process involves lots of moving and grouping of elements, so the stacking order is always changing...hence the mask problem.

In short, I'm moving lots of elements around so I'm constantly changing the stacking order with multiple keystrokes and mouse clicks. I'm very fast, but when I have 2 items selected, I have the impulse to flip them with a quick key command.

And I agree that a script wouldn't be any faster, especially since Illustrator can't bind key commands to scripts :(