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53 Scripting Illustrator during this conversion. Refer to the "Applying Color" chapter in the Adobe Illustrator User Guide for more information on working with color. Working with symbols Symbols are art objects that are stored in the Symbols palette and applied to documents. You can create, delete and duplicate symbols. When you create symbols, Illustrator adds them to the Symbols Palette for the target document. When you save the document, Illustrator also saves the symbols you created and used in the document. Working with symbol items Symbol items refer to instances of symbols in a document. You can create, delete, and duplicate symbol items. They are "linked" to the symbol definition such that changing the definition of a symbol causes all of the instances of the symbol to change as well. Symbol items are Illustrator art objects and therefore can be treated as other art objects or page items. In other words, you can rotate, resize, select, lock, hide and perform other operations on them. Working with text art In Illustrator CS, the object model for text changed significantly. Figure 3.3, "Adobe Illustrator Scripting - Object Model for Text", shows the new object model for text. Figure 3.3 Adobe Illustrator Scripting - Object Model for Text Application Document Character Style Paragraph Style Story Text Frame Text Range Selection Paragraph Line Word Character 12 Aug 03