Exploiting Advanced Graphics Features

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Exploiting Advanced Graphics Features

In Getting Started with the Symbol Editor, you learnt how to manipulate graphic objects, parameters and conditions. In this section, you will see how to apply these techniques to symbols containing imported images.

The Symbol Editor can import the following file types:

PNG, JPG, and GIF format files are static images. This means that their appearance cannot be edited directly using the Symbol Editor. However, static images have a smaller memory footprint. You use static images to create light symbols. For more information, see Designing for Performance.

Both IVL and SVG files contain vector graphics. Using the Symbol Editor, you can edit and add conditions to each object contained in an imported vector graphic. This section contains the following information:

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