I lied.

Version 2 allowed you to turn the objects to symbols when you select them - I believe that will save space and allow you to change them after you have built the patterns.
It also allows you to choose text items without converting to paths :-)

Big UP!
Great job!

and this was the test file for version 3 ( in the first post)
which rotates and scales fills - and strokes

Very useful. Thanks for sharing.

I tried it with illustrator cs5, and as i recall the script receive an error:
"Error 2: script not defined
Line 9

• > script.coordinateSystem = 'bottom-up';

Why?
Thank you

did your install of Scriptographer work ok ?
Need that to be successful , and a restart of illustrator before trying to run a script

Great, everything works perfectly now.
Thank you

Same results as Maurizio. CS5.

Thank you very much!

thanks - glad it's useful. Shame it won't continue in next version :-(