Buggy Symbols

[Lojza]

I have now dived deeper into symbols and encountered some buggy behavior.

 

1) text frames (artistic text) seem to randomly partially detach from symbols (dashed orange line on the side), claiming that unlinked attribute is the "Text Frame"

2) some symbols seem to react no adding new artboard inconsistently - when creating a new artboard manually to the left of an artboard with existing symbol, the parts of the symbol (like pixel layer with a phone image) "travel" outside the original arboard, while parts remain (like an ellipse with gaussian blur effect used for phone's shadow).

3) dragging some non-symbol layers into existing symbols seem unpredictively unstable - sometimes the layer will appear in all symbols, sometimes it doesn't (symbol sync is on, no symbols are detached).

4) now I'm having a document that has 2 symbols created and on certain groups, no new symbol is created when selecting the group and using "Create" button on Symbols pane

5) when moving a layer / group outside a symbol container, it remains with the orange stripe, apparently not belonging to the symbol any more. Even if the original symbol container is deleted, these layers seem like being a part of a symbol. This also leads me to a question, whether there are some constraints on how layers / groups can be moved out / in existing symbols containers.

 

Does anyone have similar problems..? Some of them are hard to reproduce and usually don't appear in simple "flat" document without artboards or a document containing just one artboard, but in my case, when working with more artboards of different sizes, nested content in rectangels, embedded (SVG) documents, it's quite a chore to get at least some symbols working... I may be able to provide a sample "buggy" document for the developers (not publicly), if applicable.

 

Thanks!

[Lojza]

Further investigation: most probably, some of the layers keep their reference to a symbol, when duplicated, but lose their orange stripe.

As for point 4) above, when I used "Detach" first (on a group that was not marked with the orange stripe, neither contained any nested symbol), then I was able to create a new symbol from that group.

[agalberto]

It happens to me that a text converted to symbol, when dragged on the artboard changes the size from like 15pt to 3pt.

Also part of a group. In this case i was trying to convert a header of a website containing the menu and the logo. (as attached).

 

Alberto

[Lojza]

Further investigation: it seems embedded document is always synchronized across symblos in which it is contained, no matter that its copy is edited outside any symbol.

[Lojza]

And another investigation: I just realized that embedded documents seem to remain of just one instance when put into the document. Every other copy / duplicate of this embedded document shares edits from other instances. So my previous comment has probably nothing to do with symbols. However, this leads me to a question: is it possible to embed pixel document as "embedded document" draging or placing always creates an "image" layer. Embedded document with previous features (just one instance per AD document) would help where one image is duplicated among many layers / artboards. Hopefully, an embedded document would not increase file size so much.

 

Any tips? :)