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August 11, 2009
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Parts or all of SVG graphics not visible when imported in FM 7.2

  • August 11, 2009
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Hello

I've browsed the forums and haven't found any posts that address this specific problem.

My problem is that when I import an svg file converted from eps into FM (I have both 7.2 and 8 - same behavior for both), it's either completely invisible or I can see only parts of it. I have noticed that any edits I make to the image in Ai after conversion to svg (via "save as") are always visible in FM after import, just not the orginal content that was converted from eps (or other, such as .dwg and .ai). I am part of a tech writing team and we are all experiencing the same behavior, so it's not an isolated event. I should add that the problem appears to be intermittent, or at least I haven't noticed a pattern. It just happens or it doesn't.

Any idea what might be causing this? I'm very new to the svg format and relatively new to both Illustrator and FM, so I may be missing something obvious. Any help or advice would be humbly appreciated. Thanks.

Sean

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    Correct answer Arnis Gubins

    The SVG import filter was developed by Orbital Technologies for Adobe and converts the SVG into internal FrameVector format. There have been a number of reports of flakey behaviour and one seemed to suggest grouped objects as a possible trouble-maker (something about transparent fill being rendered white when grouped).

    If you already have EPS files, then why are you converting them to SVG for import into FM? DWG can be converted directly to PDF in the newer versions of Acrobat and these import cleanly into FM. From Illustrator, saving as EPS will produce the best result in FM.

    [Addendum]

    SVG is also essentially dead in the water as far as Adobe is concerned. The new flavour is FXG (which is meant to support Flash). See: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/09/30/why-adobe-chose-fxg-over-svg/ as to why Adobe chose FXG over SVG for future development.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis GubinsCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    August 11, 2009

    The SVG import filter was developed by Orbital Technologies for Adobe and converts the SVG into internal FrameVector format. There have been a number of reports of flakey behaviour and one seemed to suggest grouped objects as a possible trouble-maker (something about transparent fill being rendered white when grouped).

    If you already have EPS files, then why are you converting them to SVG for import into FM? DWG can be converted directly to PDF in the newer versions of Acrobat and these import cleanly into FM. From Illustrator, saving as EPS will produce the best result in FM.

    [Addendum]

    SVG is also essentially dead in the water as far as Adobe is concerned. The new flavour is FXG (which is meant to support Flash). See: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/09/30/why-adobe-chose-fxg-over-svg/ as to why Adobe chose FXG over SVG for future development.

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