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Saving and loading symbols

Saving and loading symbols - Illustrator Tutorial

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Saving and loading symbols

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- [Instructor] So now that we've started your symbol library, it might be a good idea to show you how to save it and to access it in the future so that you can use it. Saving symbols is really simple. All you need to do is save the file, and the symbols will save with it. So, I'm going to go to File, Save As. We can navigate to wherever you want to save it. I would label it, Button Symbols, and click Save. It's going to save as a regular Illustrator file, and you can open it whenever you need it. So, let me show you how to go ahead and open it. I'm going to open a New File here in Illustrator, and we'll just go to Print and open a plain old Letter Size document. And notice, when I open a new document, the symbols, the graphic styles, everything that we had in our personal Start files, is gone. But what if I want to load the symbols now that we created? Well, first thing I'll do is go ahead and select these and delete them, 'cause they're useless to us. And now, we're going to load a…

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