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Yes, I can confirm that a lot of what your experiencing is Adobe CS's compromise with the SVG format, and indeed Inkscape is much better in this specific use ca
by th0ma5 14y ago
Yes, I can confirm that a lot of what your experiencing is Adobe CS's compromise with the SVG format, and indeed Inkscape is much better in this specific use case. In general, AI predates SVG, and in general is much broader in scope than SVG, especially with regards to integration with the rest of the suite, and blurring of the lines between illustration and photographic effects.
- egypturnash 14y agoOut of curiosity, do you know of any other ways to get an image from AI into an SVG besides Illustrator's SVG output?
- th0ma5 14y agoNo not really, although if I was in need of some kind of option, I would explore a couple of things 1) Clipboard formats... like WMF on the clipboard into Inkscape 2) Printing as PDF or PS and then using Inkscape or Ghostscript to go from there... 3) See what kinds of options you get with obscure features of Photoshop like AI->Photoshop->Print as PDF ... in general I think for large complex drawings AI suffers from losing track of its own internal scene graph, or at least there are drawings and layers of effects that can suffer from the halting problem and just crash AI. I have seen several people in the creative coding and graph theory worlds struggle with this kind of problem regardless of tool. Best of luck to you!