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perrybrus
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August 27, 2018
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Symbol opacity

  • August 27, 2018
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I can change the opacity of a single or multiple instances of the same symbol while it's open in my art board but it doesn't affect the symbol library, in other words it doesn't store with the file. So next time I open that symbol element the opacity change has gone and it's back to 100% again. If I drag several instances of a symbol out to my art board and apply an opacity change to one of them, the others remain unchanged. So it obviously doesn't function as a symbol in terms of opacity changes. Don't symbols support opacity change?

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    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    August 27, 2018

    Opacity seems to be an instance property, and not a symbol property. You could set the opacity of an object before making it be a symbol, then if you want to change that amount globally you would double-click into the symbol instance, change the inner object's opacity, and all places where that symbol is used will see the opacity change. It's still there when you open the file again.

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    perrybrusAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 28, 2018

    Ok. That is not 100% stable by the way cause if you choose to delete all the symbol instances of that altered symbol on the art board you also risk loosing the symbol from the symbol menu. In other words it sometimes deletes the symbol link and it's content. This occurs occasionally on W10. Last XD update.

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