Adobe Illustrator CS4 - Manual (Page 94)

87 USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Drawing
To select all symbols that aren’t used in a document, choose Select All Unused from the Symbols panel menu.
2 Choose Save Symbol Library from the Symbols panel menu.
3 Save the new library to the default Symbols folder. The library name will automatically appear in the User Defined
submenu of the Symbol Libraries and Open Symbol Library menu.
If you save the library to a different folder, you can open it by choosing Open Symbol Library > Other Library from
the Symbols panel menu. Once you open it using this process, it will appear in the Symbol Libraries submenu with
the other libraries.
Import a symbol library from another document
1 Choose Window > Symbol Libraries > Other Library or choose Open Symbol Library > Other Library from the
Symbols panel menu.
2 Select the file from which you want to import symbols, and click Open.
The symbols appear in a symbol library panel (not the Symbols panel).
Symbolism tools and symbol sets
About symbol sets
A symbol set is a group of symbol instances that you create with the Symbol Sprayer tool. You can create mixed sets of
symbol instances by using the Symbol Sprayer tool with one symbol and then using it again with another symbol.
Artwork created with the symbolism tools
As you work with symbol sets, keep in mind that the symbolism tools affect only the symbol or symbols selected in the
Symbols panel. For example, if you create a mixed symbol instance set that represents a meadow with grass and
flowers, you can change the orientation of just the grass by selecting the grass symbol in the Symbols panel and then
using the Symbol Spinner tool. To change the size of both the grass and the flowers, select both symbols in the Symbols
panel and then use the Symbol Sizer tool.
Note: When you select a mixed symbol set on the artboard, the symbol instance most recently added to the set is
automatically selected in the Symbols panel.