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Although many people agreed that Illustrator needed to add a way to work with Symbols, few envisioned that the feature had much more to offer. In terms of head-to-head software competitions, none has been more heated than the one between Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand. The Symbolism tools allow you to select a Symbol and spray it on the canvas with the Symbol Sprayer tool � for example, you can select the Sequoia Symbol and paint a forest in a couple of swaths, and still modify or replace them all via the master Symbol at any time.
