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In addition, in the case of indoor small cells, new needs related to the radiation pattern of the antennas are emerging. In this work, a technique for the synthesis of planar transmitarray antennas with simultaneous near-field and far-field requirements is proposed. It is based on an iterative process, going from synthesized sources to generated field and back, through three operations: near-field computation as the sum of far-field contributions from the array elements, and inverse and direct fast Fourier transforms. As a result, the technique is very efficient from the point of view of computing time. In order to demonstrate the ability of the method, two examples are studied: one of them with a null in the near-field region and the other with a focal point, both pointing simultaneously in a specific far-field direction. The results are validated by manufacturing two dielectric \u201cquasi-planar\u201d prototypes at 26 GHz. 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