SVG files open altered
My files are continuously saving incorrectly. They look great when I save, but when I close out and open it later, things are not as they were. Anchors/handles jump out of whack, stylized effects disappear, rasterized images go blank or disappear; it is maddening. I cannot use this program if my files do not reopen as I saved them. They are exactly right when I hit save, but upon reopening, or opening in another program, they are altered in infuriatingly time-consuming ways.
Possible related symptoms -- upon saving a file, Illustrator regularly tells me my file has been modified outside of Illustrator and asks if I would like to continue. I never open files in other programs which change them in any way. The only programs I use Illustrator files in is occasionally Photoshop, or when I upload them to be used with my 3D printer. I can open a brand new file, work on it, save it, work on it some more, not even leave the program, hit save, and get the message about it being modified elsewhere.
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Well, true, SVG is not native format for Illustrator (and never will). Each SVG you 'save' is actually 'exported' (despite the dialog’s name).
But notice you have '1' as a value for decimal places. This is what makes the precision of your points drop, causing them jump. Depending on the size of your objects this be critical. SVG are designed for web, to look OK at a certain level of zoom, and lightweight, that’s the length of these value matter for web developers. Glowforge... a strange choice to use a web-oriented format for cutting steel :)Make this value higher, something like 5, and it should stick to it next time you export an SVG. Study the format you are using!
There were some bug reports this value goes 1 sometimes, but so far it’s not clear why.
Please look how your files behave with 5 decimal digits and comment back. Hope it helps. -
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It was mentioned, in the Adobe Community threads, that:
"I suspect there is something wacky going on with the anchor points in the SVG artwork you imported into Illustrator. A plugin such as Vector First Aid would probably correct the anchor point problems.SVG is not a good format to use for archiving artwork created in Illustrator. If the artwork is going to be edited further or re-used in other projects it is far better to simply save it in Illustrator AI format."
This is unhelpful at best, as the program I require for my work, prefers SVG format, and cannot use Ai format. I also create files from scratch within Ai. Nothing imported. I open files in the online Glowforge app, and rarely anywhere else.
However, in doing some troubleshooting, .ai files stay exactly as I see them when I save. I can turn them into PDFs from there, and they are also as I saved them. But othing makes SVG files stick now. I would really love an actual fix, but for a work-around, I suppose saving files as .ai and converting them to .pdf when I'm ready to print them, is better than nothing.
Anything you've got to help fix SVG files, I'm open!
Thanks.
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Anonymous
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I save 99% of my files as .SVG, sometimes .AI or .PDF, but almost always .SVG. I'll upload a screenshot of the settings, which, other than changing from "link" to "embed" for image location, are the default settings I never touch. Not to say they haven't changed with some update or another, but I wouldn't know; I never even look at them.
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Nope, cloud is what the company tries to push, but Ai works locally just fine. It’s just sometimes some cloud services interfere with how files are saved with the watched folder, that’s why I asked.
The thing with the handle you show is rather weird. This jump is rather large, but I can’t tell how large the path is. This can be caused by precision limit, but...
Please tell more about your workflow. What options do you choose when save a file? What is your preferable format? -
Anonymous
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CC Desktop Illustrator v 29.4, updated 16 days ago.
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Anonymous
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Apologies, the screenshots I included in the post didn't go through. Again, this is an example of the vectors going crazy only, and a very simple example at that. I had a file previously that was a much larger issue, with vectors going all over the place, but that file has been fixed, anchor by anchor until they stayed put.
Since I've got the cloud version of AI, it updates regularly. This has been happening for a while... 6 months? The pop-up regarding the file being modified was the first weird thing, then the vectors jumping, which got worse over time, and now I've got all kinds of nutty things happening. Whatever the issue is, it's getting worse overall, with more and more symptoms. I save locally. Local drive. I don't have a cloud service, except whatever Illustrator is linked to, but I try not to be on that cloud if possible. Not sure I'm successful, since the cloud is the only way the program works now, I believe?
EDIT: I am on v29.4 of Ai
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This is odd and super disturbing :(
Are you using the latest build? When did it start happening, can you remember?
Can you also share some examples of the corrupted files you got (preferably with some screenshots of the proper look of them)?
Do you save locally, or in the cloud? Local or network drive? Cloud service managed or not?
