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1. Unable to import SVG textPath

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   Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminAnjali (Workflow Expert, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   I am glad to update that this issue was fixed in 23.0.5 release.

   Thank you for all the feedback.

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   Mark MacKay commented  ·  March 25, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   I've narrowed down the problem to the fact that Illustrator only works with a xlink:href reference to the path element. If you import this SVG https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/textPath Illustrator will not put the text on a path, but if you change <textPath xlink:href="#MyPath"> then it will. xlink:href is deprecated in SVG 2.

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