| jazzgillum@adobeforums.com 2006-12-06, 8:16 pm |
| I think I've discovered an easily repeatable problem when creating PDFs from Illustrator using nested symbols (a symbol containing another symbol).
Take an instance of a symbol and drag it to the Symbols palette, creating a new symbol. Delete everything from the artboard to keep things tidy. Place multiple instances of the second symbol, then save the file as a PDF. When I do this, only the first ins
tance shows up in the PDF.
I've used this technique extensively in an ongoing project and didn't catch the problem until I created the PDF deliverable at the end. Now I've got to go through each file and replace the nested symbols with the original, master symbol.
The reason I started doing this is sometimes we use several identical symbols that have different names in different contexts and we use the names to identify the objects in the data as they're imported, so this way if the symbol needs to change I can jus
t change the master symbol and all of the nested symbols change automatically. That part works just fine, but the PDF problem is a deal killer.
Can anyone provide insight into why this happens or what I could do differently to get it to work?
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