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Scale/resize symbols individually

I love the addition of symbols to XD, only let down (beside the ability to re-organise them which is already posted as an idea) is that I have to create a new symbol for every required size.

Please let us scale the symbols

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Paul Waitforit Mooney shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
feature-completed  ·  AdminSherif Assaf (Product Manager, Adobe) responded  · 

Hi All,

We’re excited to announce that with our May release, we have introduced Components (previously known as symbols). Components are design elements with unmatched flexibility that help you create and maintain repeated elements while varying the instances for different contexts and layouts.

You can create a master component to define a reusable element, such as a button, and you can change any of its properties to customize instances of that element (Size & Layout, Style and Appearance, and Structural overrides). Changes you make to an individual instance are specific to that element, but changes you make to the master propagates to all the instances where the property hasn’t been customized.

Components now could also be responsively resized with the same powerful capabilities of responsive resize baked in.

Finally, you could link components across documents to maintain a single source of your components using the Link Assets feature or simply through copy/pasting components across documents.

To learn more, please check:
letsxd.com/whats-new
helpx.adobe.com/xd/help/linked-components.h..

Please give it a try and let us know what you think.

Thank You!

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  • r commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's pretty laughable you can't scale symbols individually. Right into the bin with this application.

  • Marc Baskin commented  ·   ·  Report

    I really love XD, so I'm very surprised that it doesn't have scalable symbols. In my mind it's just a group, and I would think I'd be able to manipulate it in the same way. It's standard functionality for symbols in design software at this point.

    I'm forced to break the symbol to resize, which defeats the point I think.

    EDIT: I see work has started on this feature (thanks!) ... but almost a year ago ...

  • Tomasz Świtała commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 you guys really should make this your top priority. Just read the comments - almost all designers are waiting for this feature!

  • Maria M commented  ·   ·  Report

    + 1 vote for scalable symbols too! You've done great in relative scaling of grouped items, doing same with symbols would be a life saver!

  • David Johnson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Keep up the great work guys, but please make this a priority. I'm finding that little, but very important things like this are being put on the backburner for new features. Get the basics right first then do all the cool new stuff.

  • Nicola commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a critical feature, a year ago we decided to move forward to xd in hope that this feature is going to release soon, every release we hoped that this could be one of the release features. Unfortunate, after a year, this is still labeled as 'feature started'.

    For the users that need this feature, this is a life saver rather than something nice to have. I hope the development team can understand and escalate this feature and get it in the next release!

  • Bryce Flynn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Feature started in March 2018? A year and still not done? Hard to fathom why it's taking so long. Other related comments are spot-on regarding implementation of Fireworks-like symbols. With programmable properties and infinite scaling, FW symbols were the bomb! All XD needs to do to win is to replicate what you had once, but foolishly threw away.

  • Phil commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely something that keeps me going back to Sketch and Invision.

  • John commented  ·   ·  Report

    Fingers crossed this one gets completed soon.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Needed it so often... and still no update :(

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    What I would make a symbol in Sketch, I have to leave as a group in XS so I can scale an element. It's a pain, so please, let's get this one in there.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Creating different symbols for variations of the same thing is currently my biggest pain point with XD.

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Report

    Right now Adobe XD - is still a kind of crapware

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any news from the developers? XD is awesome, but we are currently struggling with productivity because of not having this feature.

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