[JS] Break Link to Symbol || Outline text contained within symbol

Question

There are a set of symbols in my documents, these all contain editable text.
Prior to going to production I need to break the link to all the symbols so that I can outline the text. SymbolItem doesn't have a method that i have uncovered - suggestions?
Thanks

Answer 1

As i already said is not that difficult ... this script turns your symbol into a nice bunch of pathitems:
#target illustrator
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var doc2 = app.documents.add();
var SymbolHelper = {
        getSymbols: function() {
            var syms = new Array();
            for(i=0; i < doc.pageItems.length; i++) {
                if(doc.pageItems[i].typename=="SymbolItem") {
                    syms.push(doc.pageItems[i]);
            return syms;
        moveAndBreakSymbol: function(sym) {
            try { sym.duplicate(doc2, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING); } catch(ex) {};
        clearSymbols: function() {
            try { doc2.symbols.removeAll(); } catch(ex){}
        makeMePlainAndSweet: function(group) {
            var sorted =group.pageItems;
            for(e = sorted.length - 1; e>= 0; e--) {
                sorted[e].move(group, ElementPlacement.PLACEBEFORE);
        makeMePlainAndSweetBatch: function() {
            var doAfter = new Array();
            for(x = doc2.groupItems.length - 1; x >= 0;x--) {
                //alert(doc2.groupItems[x].groupItems.length);
                if(doc2.groupItems[x].groupItems.length > 0) doAfter.push(doc2.groupItems[x]);
                else this.makeMePlainAndSweet(doc2.groupItems[x]);
           if(doAfter.length > 0) {
                for(i = doAfter.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                    this.makeMePlainAndSweet(doAfter[i]);
var syms = SymbolHelper.getSymbols();
for(i = syms.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    SymbolHelper.moveAndBreakSymbol(syms[i]);
SymbolHelper.clearSymbols();
SymbolHelper.makeMePlainAndSweetBatch();
The only downside of the javascript aproach(that's either because i`m too stupid/tired @ this hour) is that the elements inside the groups are taken out in their index order and not their zOrder(using zOrderPosition on elements inside the group gives me an internal error) because of some random reason.
The rest of the script is fairly easy and that's bringing back the elements.
hope it somehow helps;
cheers;