Elmigo
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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Elmigo
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For me "Use artboards" is very inconsistent in Illustrator.
I just opened 100+ SVG's to quickly change their color and hit CTRL+S to save the file again. Illustrator decided on his own, that CTRL+S removes the "use artboards" option from the file without even asking me anything. That means I just ruined over 100 SVG files and now I can spend another day restoring them.
Save As: "use artboard" option is offered, but turned off by default and need to be checked manually every single time.
Save: "use artboard" option is NOT offered, but turned off anyway, despite the original file using it (ruining your files if you open, change something and save again).
Export: "use artboard" option is NOT offered, but turned ON for me as you can choose the artboards you like to export. But when do you ever use 'export' when you just want to change the color of an existing file? Honestly...
Illustrator absolutely ruined all my files just now. At this point, this frustrates me enough to start thinking about using different software instead. Illustrator is full of SVG inconsistencies that keep ruining my files, such as automatically saving every file with a suffix "-01" and "-02" etc. behind it, so I don't know which file was which anymore (but that's a different issue).
Illustrator used to be predictable.
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Nils, please try export svg through File > Export > Export As > SVG and let us know the result
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An error occurred while saving the comment Elmigo
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Yes, this is a problem for me too. Two things are working against each other:
1. "Use artboards" checked off by default
2. Automatically adding suffix to SVG file nameI end up accidentally saving SVG files without a bounding box, remembering that I forgot the artboards checkbox, and now I have to follow steps to:
- Open a random file with the correct artboard size
- Open the file with the wrong bounding box size
- Copying the contents of the second file into the first file
- Saving the second file under the name of the first file
- Now I have two or even more files with a suffix in the nameAnd now I end up deleting the wrong files. I remember saving the original file as "file_name.svg" but this original file does not exist, because Illustrator automatically turns it into "file_name-01.svg". I'm under the impression that the file with suffix is the wrong one because Illustrator added the suffix, and I saved a file with a suffix that had no boundaries. But the suffixed file is actually the original that I end up deleting.
This feature was meant to prevent overriding original files, but I end up deleting the wrong ones all the time now.
An error occurred while saving the comment Elmigo
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Illustrator Save as SVG has become an absolute pain for me in the past year(s) because two things are working against each other:
1. "Use artboard" is off by default, causing me to continuously save SVG's without boundaries
2. "-01", "-02", etc. is automatically added behind file names, requiring me to rename themThe effects for me are destructive:
I keep deleting the wrong files because after saving, I remember that I forgot to check "Use artboards", and now I end up:
1. Opening another random file with the correct artboard size
2. Opening the file without bounding box
3. Copying the content of the file without bounding box
4. Pasting it in the existing file with bounding box
5. Saving the existing file under the file name of the first file
6. Ending up with a bunch of files with suffixes "-02", "-03", etc.
7. I don't remember which file is the original anymore, because the original usually does not have a suffix but now ALL MY FILES have suffixes
8. I end op deleting the wrong files and losing my dataAnd this suffix-function was probably meant to prevent overriding original files. Yet because of its effects, I end up deleting the original files instead.
Meanwhile, after making this mistake a couple of times, my trash can has become an unrecognizable list of files with the exact same file names, and it's impossible for me to find the "original" file that I accidentally removed.
This feature is more of a bug than most crashes and real bugs to me.
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I am not allowed to offer extra information about the issue here? **** Adobe man. I'm done with this ********. Delete this message, I know someone is reading it. Fix the issues. I'm paying for it every month.