open SVG files in Illustrator with correct stroke values

[Asterixx]

Hello, I want to open a SVG file (not matter what content or objects, just one line for example), that I made in another tool, Clip Studio Paint. I can open in correctly in three other vector software products I own, but Illustrator does not open the stroke values correctly. I read this in some other internet forum threads as a problem that probably Illustrator always reads the strokes in pt, not in mm, px what else. Even if I change this in the Illustrator options for the units.

My question is just: is this still the case today (I have an older version of Illustrator just before CC) ?

How can I tell illustrator to read a SVG correctly?

Thank you.

[Monika Gause]

Can you post a test file and then someone can open it and export it for you and you can check it.

[Asterixx]

Hello thank you for your answer. Here a file.

It opens with correct stroke appearance (relative to each other and how it look correctly) in: Affinity, Corel, Inkscape, Firefox, Chrome, Edge.

In Illustrator the lines are much too bold, probably as there is no unit in the svg, but somehow the other software can read it :). And the unit in AI is not changing anything.

Is there perhaps some svg import script ? or does this work perfectly in CC?

[Asterixx]

Could anyone with an Illustrator CC new version open this file and it looks like in the preview (when you click on it here in the forum) ? Or are the three objects very very bold ?

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

These are the values when opening in Illustrator 28.5:

[Asterixx]

Thank you !

OK - so the new version of illustrator can just open it normally. I have a version before CC, so this is one point to perhaps change to CC one day. Of course it would also be great to get this working in CS4, but probably there is no easy way?

[Monika Gause]

Probably all those other apps you are using are newer than your copy of Illustrator CS4. Right?

[Asterixx]

Hello, no not all are newer, but of course you are right that I can better use one of the other apps to open the SVG files. I just thouth there would be perhaps a hidden option somewhere to open the SVG with the correct strokes. But thank you again, at least I know that it would work in CC.