Originally posted by **defactofrank** March 5, 2022
## Copy/Pasting a single layer into many layer groups? ðŸ˜
#### **Example:** (`` click to enlarge image ``)
To begin with I'm having trouble exporting PNG files from artboards that have many layers each
| example of | my artboards | #=layer amount |
|:--:|:--:|:--:|
| 92 | 56 | 283 |
| 64 | 24 | 5 |
| 310 | 12 | 65 |
The Artboards all have the same canvas size, but the layers are part of a collective.
Some shapes inside the layer-groups are 50x50px, others 350x80px.
I need the exported PNG to have the full transparent canvas size.
As you can see in the video; When I "Generate Asset" before my bad solution, only the shape itself gets exported.
My "hack" (read: hillbilly-solution) is to place a rectangle the size of the artboard on top of the layer with the opacity reduced to 0%.
This works, but the high numbers in the table above are non-fictional (and lacking many artboards)
> After 2 days of searching, this appears to not be natively possible in Illustrator, so a script is needed.
### Please help me. I don't want to copy/paste manually over 2500 times.
Discussed in https://github.com/alexander-ladygin/illustrator-scripts/discussions/15