Illustrator question re: save as

[Aloha]

Happy Holidays amazing glowforge Ohana.
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.

[deirdrebeth]

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…

Adobe Illustrator SVG save settings

[chris1]

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).

[bwente]

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.

[cynd11]

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.

[chris1]

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.

[bwente]

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.

[yoyodyne2112]

Save As PDF, Illustrator Defaults, done!

[ekla]

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.

[Aloha]

SVG export gotcha in Illustrator 2020

I just tracked down an interesting gotcha in Illustrator 2020 (just released). Even if you tell it to keep your prior settings, it insists on setting “Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities” to True in the SVG options dialog. You’ll know this has occurred when the GFUI errors out after the grouping operation when loading an svg file. As a reminder, make sure Image Location is “Embed,” uncheck “Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities,” make sure decimal pl…

Ahhh, everything old is new again…

Ok, I will convert.

[chris1]

A deep longstanding dislike of PDFs. (I didn’t say “entirely rational”)

[deirdrebeth]

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.

[shop]

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?

[Pearl]

I thought I was the only one that had that hangup. Just attributed it to my quirkiness.

[chris1]

That’s generally what I do.

Pretty sure it uses SVG under the hood, though.

[shop]

it totally does use SVG.

[deirdrebeth]

I’ve never gotten that to work from Inkscape sadly.

[shop]

i don’t think it does from inkscape.

[Aloha]

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…