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dotCooCoo 0c272519fb .ai import: symbols and their instances open live
The reader measured a symbol's definition only to find the page art an
instance covered, so every file with a placed symbol instance opened
with that instance as drawn art, or as its page.

- Each `%AI14_BeginSymbol` definition is read by a reader of its own into
  a symbol of the document, with its art (in the symbol's space, y down),
  the registration point its dictionary gives
  (`AI13PatternRegistrationType`, 1 to 9 from the top left) and the
  instances of other symbols in its art. A definition whose art isn't
  read whole isn't kept: type, placed files, non-native art, pattern
  fills, a gradient or an image the reader can't read or place, and
  anything else the reader doesn't read. Its instances come in as the
  page draws them, within the box of the art that is read. A definition
  that holds an instance of a symbol the file doesn't have isn't kept
  either, nor is a definition holding an instance of one of those, and
  their instances aren't read. A definition after the first layer isn't
  read.
- `%AI24_BeginSymbolList` orders the symbols as the Symbols panel lists
  them. A name read twice is numbered ("Dot 2"), and instances name the
  first symbol with the file's name.
- `/SymbolInstance` with `/SymbolRef` and `/RTransformMatrix` comes in as
  a live instance, with the hide and lock set before it and the opacity,
  blending mode, isolation and knockout of the `Xy` after it, as a
  group's. An instance with appearance changes of its own
  (`AI19SymbolAppearanceMap`), of a symbol that isn't read, or placed
  only by `/Matrix` or `/Transform`, comes in as the page draws it.
- Symbol art takes the gradients and art styles read before it, and an
  object in it linked to a listed graphic style keeps the link.
- In a symbol's art, the matrices of instances, gradients and images are
  read in the canvas's space, y up, about the canvas point of the ruler
  origin. Without `%AI3_TemplateBox` an image can't be placed, so the
  symbol isn't kept.
- At most 4,096 definitions are read, and a symbol list names at most
  16,384 symbols.

Tests: reader tests for each case above, and fuzz cases for damaged and
hostile symbol data.
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