As we have seen so far, Adobe Illustrator provides you with a comprehensive set of tools and features that help you build artwork from scratch or by using imported resources. However, the design process does not always depend on building elements from scratch. In some designs, such as web layouts, the designer can use elements such as buttons, banners, and separators again and again.
Creating these repeated elements from scratch consumes effort and time that can be allocated to more creative tasks. Thus, Illustrator provides symbols as reusable assets for repeated objects, as we will see later in the Working with ...
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