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I am not sure if it is something that can be defaulted, however when I use save as svg, and change my decimal places to 6, and my image location to embed, it remembers for a while, then it forgets and I am back to decimals of 1, and image link…
Is there anything that I can do to force it to remember?
I am not sure if this correlates with adobe pushing updates.
Since they describe 3 and link as “the most reliable export settings” I’d blame them…but that yours defaults to 1 and not 3 makes me less sure…
That’s weird indeed. I don’t use Illustrator constantly, so but I feel like it remembered my settings for years, until I got a new computer (and deliberately started from scratch).
Do you need that much? I noticed in the past it just makes larger files (longer processing). 1 was not accurate enough for me, 3 was the sweet spot.
It seems to me that Illustrator messes with my preferences every time I do an update. I’m probably doing something wrong, but it has made me very reluctant to update.
I use 4, personally, but I don’t remember if that’s for a reason. I feel like I saw a file once where 3 wasn’t enough and caused some artifacts. But 1/1000 of an inch is pretty small.
I think if I had something really intricate I would bump it up, but for a finger tab box, 3 decimal places is good enough.
Save As PDF, Illustrator Defaults, done!
This!! I don’t understand why Illustrator-> GF users are still bothering with SVG unless they’re selling files to others. PDF or copy/paste are so much simpler methods.
Ahhh, everything old is new again…
Ok, I will convert.
A deep longstanding dislike of PDFs. (I didn’t say “entirely rational”)
SAME! IMO .pdfs are to be used only when you want to lock stuff you’re sending out into the world - and even that’s only true if the people receiving it are not tech savvy at all.
you can still do copy/paste for most jobs. the only time i have issues is occasionally with embedded raster images. but anything that’s vector, it’s copy/paste all the way. why create an intermediary file if you don’t have to?
I thought I was the only one that had that hangup. Just attributed it to my quirkiness.
That’s generally what I do.
Pretty sure it uses SVG under the hood, though.
it totally does use SVG.
I’ve never gotten that to work from Inkscape sadly.
i don’t think it does from inkscape.
I have finally converted… I am copying and pasting between adobe and gave up on SVG.
The ornaments I designed were drawn out in illustrator, only saved as SVG, and when the decimal dropped to 1 from 6, it warped my gingerbread man to make it look like a terrible trace, rather than something crisp and perfect.
The file size will be boosted, but hopefully it prevent me from injuring more gingerbread men in the future.
I spent a bunch of time re-creating it… although in hindsight I probably should have found a version on the user interface and downloaded a successful upload… ahh…
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