Trouble exporting an SVG to Cricut Design Space - Elements missing & type filled in

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September 2, 2021
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Okay, complicated,...but in Cricut, I am trying to import an image that I was configuring in Illustrator. However, whenever I try to move the image, parts (but not all) of the seamingly empty (no fill) leaves in the image get filled in with black during the export from Illustrator --> Cricut, and part of some lemons that I had colored in 2 shades of yellow has 1 of the shades that disappears. There are also some letters that are filled in with black in the negative spaces, while there is an outline on one word and no fill in it (see the screenshot). Initially, I was getting an error message when transfering Illustrator --> Cricut "cannot contain clipping paths when exported for Cricut Design Space image upload." I tweaked the design a bit and looked under the layers panel and did not see any clipping paths there. The screen shot is where I am now. I'm at the end of my rope with this. The interwebs have not been much help since I don't know what to search for that I'm doing wrong. HELP ANYONE, please.

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Mylenium

Legend

Simply including the SVG in your post via the camera icon will do. The forum allows it. Otherwise copy & pasting bits from a text editor will also work as do screenshots, of course.

Mylenium

Monika Gause

Community Expert

So first of all: the SVG is a valid SVG file (checked it with the W3C validator).

The issues you are having with it look like Cricut has issues recognizing the counters of the letters. When opening with QuickView on the Mac or in Firefox the counters look good. So this is Cricut causing the issues.

You should investigate how Cricut expects the counters to be. They are correctly made as compound paths and there are also not too many paths stacked on each other, so it might get difficult finding out what Cricut doesn't like about it.

Mylenium

Legend

Without any insights into the layer structure and the SVG code we can't realyl tell you much beyond the obvious: Your compound paths don't translate. Whether that's down to AI's terrible SVG implementation or the actual structure is an open question then. As a workaround you could at least try to open it in Inkscape and re-export from there. Maybe this yields a much better result.

Mylenium

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Dingus5C93Author

Participant

Hi Mylenium,

Is there any way for me to fet you the information that you need to have a deeper look? I tried to import and reexport in inkscape, but it returns a blank file in Cricut.

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