Dynamic Symbols don't move when direct selecting.
If I drag a selection box around a static symbol and then move it - it moves as expected. If I do the same with a dynamic symbol - it's broken.
Definitely need this to work for my workflow. Thanks!
Jayse Hansen
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Indeed, if one uses the Direct Selection to marquee a dynamic symbol fully, Illustrator treats it as selecting all elements of it, not as selecting the symbol itself. It makes sense, but I personally see how it can be inconvenient.
However, I don’t understand why Direct Selection is used... I’d use Group Selection instead — it does not select anything inside of a dynamic symbol and treats it as a whole. You are just one Opt/Alt key away from it working as expected — hold it and Direct Selection toggles into Group Selection.I don’t actually think selecting all parts of a dynamic symbol should become a selection of a symbol. On the contrary, many users ask to stop doing the same thing for selecting points, when selecting all the points in a path hides point-specific buttons in Control... similar problem happens when you select all objects in a group when isolated, and Ai treats is as if a whole object is selected (although we are inside of it). So I don’t think Direct Selection should be changed here.
Another way to let symbols selected whole when you already made a selection — Select > Inverse, twice. But this, again, whille select ALL partially selected objects whole, not only symbols.
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TT Kiker commented
This bug is VERY annoying and takes up more time than one would think.
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Anonymous
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Same problem here.
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This still doesn't work in AI 2019.
