Allow outline / edges colour changes in Symbol edit mode
Allow the user to change the outline colour in Symbol Editing Mode. 'Options for Symbol Editing Mode' is always greyed out. It's possible to change the outline colour but it always reverts to the randomly-selected default colour.
See summary of issue here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/editing-symbols-layer-options-changing-select-color-doesn-t-work/m-p/14468979
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In my experiments I was not able to permanently assign an edge color to symbol, it is always picked the same way, based on the current layer’s edges’ color...
Yes, making it possible to somehow fix it makes sense to me. Voted.
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Hi Egor
Thanks , that's interesting and I understand now that it's not random - so I *can* work around it at symbol creation.
I have only explored this briefly but it seems as though the edge colour is set (permanently) when the symbol is first created and that editing the symbol when it's present on different layers doesn't change this colour. It would be really useful if the colour could be changed after creation for those cases where it matches the artwork's colour too closely, though!
Maybe if the greyed out 'Options for Symbol Editing Mode' was implemented and there were a checkbox which allowed symbol colours to become 'sticky' this option could become available without breaking existing workflows?
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Ed, I totally get your point. Sometimes edges colors do not go well with the contents of the symbol edited!
But it’s not a random pick. What Ai does is choosing the color two positions after the current layer’s color.
You can see the default order of these colors when you edit a layer’s options. So if you are in the first layer (blue), the color would be green (reserved for the third layer). Editing a symbol in layer 2 (red) would give you medium blue for symbols. Third green layer gives you magenta — you get the idea.This is completely automatic, and Ai does that to signal that you are not in the normal mode anymore (the same happens when we use Global Edit, based on temporary symbols).
However, you can change it once you start editing a symbol.
Just double-click the top item in the Layers object tree (it should have the name of the edited symbol) and change the color in the dialog.
It won’t stick and won’t be the same the next time you edit the same symbol, but it makes sense, since the instance of it can be in any layer.What do you think about it now?
How do you think it can be improved and what should be done to not break the existing workflows users have?
