Support SVG text-anchor styling on import/export
I often copy SVGs that I created with JavaScript (through D3.js) from a browser into Illustrator to continue working on it there. However, the text-anchor setting (left, middle or right aligned) does not come through and it is always left aligned, although the position might seem like it is middle or right aligned. Once you choose a different font or font-size, the mismatch between the original text align and what Illustrator has made of it becomes very apparent and can be quite the chore to adjust.
It would be great if Illustrator would properly handle the text-anchor style setting of any read in SVG :)
Nadieh
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Guys, what do you say about having Edit > SVG Presets dialog (similar to presets for PDF there)? How often do we need to change several parameters at once and to juggle them exporting files for different tasks? I personally stick to a single set of values, but perhaps someone needs to have different ones regularly?
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Johan Kotlinski commented
For correct positioning of dynamic right-aligned or center-aligned text, we need the position of the anchor point.
But Illustrator does not export it.
Our ask is that the anchor point is exported to SVG using the text-anchor attribute.
You can read about it here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/text-anchor -
We also need text-anchor attribute to be exported to SVG!
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Pierre Paquette
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Four years after being submitted, and still nothing has been done. Is it so difficult to program?
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Anon
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This should be a simple fix/addition.... just a property isn't that hard to code!! Not only apply to import, but export/save as also!
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Dmitry
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Here is a full description of a problem:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/export-svg-text-coordinates-bug-text-align-center-doesnt-export-to-svg/td-p/10756546 -
Gregory
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Also an issue reported by Wikipedia contributors: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Illustrator#Text_anchor_(alignment)
Would be great to have this fixed :-)
