{"id":521,"date":"2016-12-05T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-12-05T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:31:33","slug":"change-or-replace-multiple-objects-in-illustrator-using-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/change-or-replace-multiple-objects-in-illustrator-using-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Change or Replace Multiple Objects in Illustrator Using Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for a way to quickly change a bunch of points on a map, I knew symbols had to be the answer, but i\u00a0couldn&#8217;t figure out how to replace objects that were already plotted on the map with the symbol I had created. I came across a very simple method by using a script but all of the links to the script were dead, so I&#8217;m posting it here.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcrockett.com\/FTP\/JET_ReplaceWithSymbol.jsx.zip\">JET_ReplaceWithSymbol.jsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit for the script goes to Jet on the Adobe forums.<\/p>\n<p>To use the script:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcrockett.com\/FTP\/JET_ReplaceWithSymbol.jsx.zip\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Unzip the file<\/li>\n<li>Select the objects you want to replace with your symbol<\/li>\n<li>In Illustrator, go to File &gt; Scripts &gt; Other Scripts<\/li>\n<li>In the dialogue, select the file .jsx from the location you have it saved, hit &#8220;Open&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>When the dialog says &#8220;Enter the number of the Symbol you want to replace each selected object&#8221; just type in the number of the symbol you&#8217;ve created. You can find the number by counting from the top left in the Symbols panel.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for a way to quickly change a bunch of points on a map, I knew symbols had to be the answer, but i\u00a0couldn&#8217;t figure out how to replace objects that were already plotted on the map with the symbol I had created. I came across a very simple method by using a script [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}