And when pasting the user needs tools to decide placement on page and replacement of symbols whose names have been changed in other documents. Create Symbol needs a way to say Create Symbol Here. To move it close to the set it may be related to requires zooming in to select it and then scrolling, moving, scrolling, moving.

As above you can end up with symbols tens of thousands of pixels away from the main mass of your original block of symbols.

Pasting symbols between documents creates repeated versions of symbols.

Would be good to have a way to select a symbol and see a list of the artboards it is being used on with tools to quickly choose which ones to edit/sync/update. There aren’t any tools that tell you where instances of a symbol are boing used. If you have a lot of Symbols you want to know where they are being used. The problems that make it problematic for large projects is: Different people will like them and other will find them irritating versus Illustrator (looking at bezier editing here) or OmniGraffle (missing OGs vertical text alignment with margins and Shared Layers) There are other minor interface and workflow capabilities that Sketch has. Makes it easy to create sophisticated visual styles.

Multiple layers of Fills, Borders, Shadows and Inner Shadows.

This can also a bit of a problem because there are a lot of similar plug-ins that you need to decide between that have varying levels of quality.

Sketch plugins are pretty easy to write and with the new file format even easier.

Vibrant plug-in community due to ease of writing plugins.

It’s somewhat of a combination of OmniGraffle stencils and Sketch symbols. This article is mostly interested in the Library feature, which promises to make multi-document work for individuals and teams a much more efficient process. If you have an InVision license you can also easily sync your drawings to InVision’s online prototyping service which has a terrific Inspect feature.

Craft also includes tools for using real data and intelligent duplicating. This multi-art plug-in adds the ability to sync libraries which can be used across documents. It’s a good start for making reusable components but as you will see below there are still some kinks to work out. Change symbol text in one place to change the name on all pages and then override on pages where it needs to be different. Sketch’s symbols update and you can override nested items elements - Ex. Omnigraffle stencils are nice because they are shared across documents, but once dropped they don’t update.

Illustrator has Symbols and Omnigraffle has stencils.

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