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• Monsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer

  April 2008 edited April 2008

  CC3 uses symbol catalogs to manage symbols. Just putting them into a folder doesn't make them visible when you load a symbol catalog, even if the catalog's own images are in that same folder.
  
  You can open a folder instead of a symbol catalog however (Make sure you have the newest patch for this to work), just hit the open symbol catalog button on the top of the symbol catalog window, browse to the relevant folder, and select any one of the .png file in it. This will open the folder with all the symbols within it, instead of a regular symbol catalog.
  
  For symbols you use a lot, it is recommended to make a symbol catalog to add it to, as this lets you use all the options of the symbol catalogs, such as random selection from a set, random transformations, force sheet, etc... Opening a folder only gives you basic access to the symbols.
  
  Note that it is also a good idea to use your own folders for custom content, and not put it into the same folders as CC3's own png's. Make shure you put your custom folders somewhere inside the "Symbols" subdirectory however)
  
  There is a nice tutorial on the User Tutorials page describing how to make symbol catalogs from your png's. (Bottom of the page)

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• homechild

  April 2008

  Thanks Monsen.
  I knew there would be a fairly simple way to do this, not knowing the system as well as you guys obviously do I was hitting a brick wall.
  Cheers
  :oD

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