Issue with importing an SVG file into Illustrator

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September 15, 2022
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Hello, I'm having trouble importing an SVG file into Illustrator. When I open it in any browser, everything appears fine, but when I import it into Illustrator, some of the colors do not appear correctly. I've provided screenshots and the SVG file below.

Is this an issue with the SVG file or with my Illustrator? How do I solve it?

logo.svg

Import and export

Monika Gause

Community Expert

The paths are there. You could just add color to them.

R

RaofinAuthor

Participating Frequently

There should be a proper solution for this. I have more files like this, and I can't manually fix all of them.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

What is "Tiny"?!
I tried both SVG options available in inkscape (Inkscape SVG & Plain SVG). None of them work.

Tiny is an SVG flavour.

Which application did you use to create those SVGs? Are those your working files?

When using Illustrator, SVG is not a working file format and should not be used as such. SVG is for exporting purposes only and then not to be opened again in Illustrator. The working file format should be the native AI.

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello Raofin,

Sorry to hear about this experience and thanks for sharing the file. When trying to open the SVG file, a warning message appears "Clipping will be lost on roundtrip to Tiny."

This indicates the file is based on SVG Tiny, a subset of SVG intended for use with mobile devices such as cell phones. It does not support certain constructs, among them clipping masks.

I would suggest you open this SVG in a web browser and then use the print command to save it as a PDF, and then open that PDF in Illustrator and check if it helps.

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,

Anubhav