I’ve noticed that a lot of files that I’ve created with illustrator get sized incorrectly in the glowforge, leading to bad prints and thrown away materials. The latest example of this is below. In Illustrator, I have a box that is around 10" wide and 5" high. When I import the file into the glowfor…

Make sure when you save your file, you don’t have any extra boxes checked. Some of them capture Adobe settings that will change the sizing. (Think that one is Include XMP.) Correct Save As SVG settings are shown below: [SVG save]

From the other one today [image] GFUI is resizing/rescaling my SVG file. Why? I’ll bet anything you have the “responsive” option checked when exporting the SVG. Turn that off and everything will be the right size

And, be sure you do a Save As… not Export.

Contrariwise, I always use Export (in fact I use Export for Screens because it’s quicker) and I have never had a problem with my SVGs. [Format_Settings]

For those of you using an older version of Illustrator (CS3 in my case), I wrote a cleanup tool to help make the dimensions right. That being said, importing random SVG into Illustrator is such a pain (it keeps losing dimensions and putting things in random places) I’m actually trying to learn Inks…

Modern versions seem to work pretty well. It’s just that they default to Responsive being on, which throws everybody the first time. If you look at the generated file, this is the bugbear: <svg id="Layer_1" data-name="Layer 1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 729.79 372.57"> Uncheck…

In Affinity, there is no choice but to ‘export’. Saving ‘as’ saves the file only in the Affinity format.

[image] chris1: Contrariwise, I always use Export Glad to know that. In the past people have reported problems with exported Illustrator files, but maybe it has to do with version (mine is very old: CS5).

@curt thanks for that link! @chris1 that looks right to me, the svg file needs width and height properties to be correctly sized. I wish there was either some notification from the UI that this was happening, or that the UI allowed us to specify an absolute size when rendering. It looks to me like …

The specification says to default to px, but that doesn’t help for various reasons: If I’m interpreting the rules correctly, viewBox="0 0 729.79 372.57" is establishing that all the contained elements are scaled such that 729.79x372.57 abstract “user units” fills the entire “viewport”. The problem …

Exported images from illustrator get sized incorrectly

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curt October 30, 2017, 12:02am 3

From the other one today