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User Guide
Symbols
About symbols
A symbol is an art object that you can reuse in a document. For example, if you create a symbol from a flower, you
can then add instances of that symbol multiple times to your artwork without actually adding the complex art
multiple times. Each symbol instance is linked to the symbol in the Symbols palette or a symbols library. Using
symbols can save you time and greatly reduce file size. Symbols also provide excellent support for SWF and SVG
export.
After you place a symbol, you can edit the symbol’s instances on the artboard and, if you want, redefine the original
symbol with the edits. The symbolism tools let you add and manipulate multiple symbol instances at once.
Artwork with symbol instances
Symbol libraries and the Symbols palette
Symbol libraries are collections of preset symbols, available from the Window > Symbol Libraries submenu or the
Open Symbol Library submenu in the Symbols palette menu.
When you open a symbol library, it appears in a new palette (not the Symbols palette). You select, sort, and view
items in a symbol library the same as you do in the Symbols palette. However, you can’t add items to, delete items
from, or edit the items in symbol libraries.
To automatically open a library when you start Illustrator, choose Persistent from the library’s palette menu.
You use the Symbols palette to manage the symbols for a document. By default, the Symbols palette contains a variety
of preset symbols. You can add symbols from symbol libraries or libraries that you create. You display the Symbols
palette by choosing Window > Symbols.
You can rearrange, duplicate, rename, and otherwise manage symbols using the Symbols palette. Choose Duplicate
Symbol or Symbol options from the palette menu to respectively duplicate or rename a symbol.
Note:
You can also double-click the symbol to rename it, or drag a symbol onto the New Symbol button in the palette to
create a copy.