Please help me make a SVG file suitable for BIMI

Question

For my emails I would like to have an avator containing my own profile picture.
One of the things I have to have is a SVG-file. Well, no problem,....................I thought.......

I have been trying everything ( I think ) but I just don't seem to get a SVG-file which is accepted.

First I tried to upload a JPG-file but this wasn't accepted, it had to be a SVG file already. So I opened the JPG file in Illustrator and converted it to a SVG 1.1 file and uploaded it to the above website. But the result was a blanco file.

Then I tried to save the image as a SVG 1.2 Tiny file, but I get an error saying: "The following items could not be exported properly: CLIPS ARE EXPANDED.

I have tried a couple of more online converters but either way they gave me a black/white image or an image with very few colors. I downloaded a tool from the BIMI website but I get this error:

This SVG file has a <image> element. However <image> elements aren't allowed in SVG Tiny Portable/Secure profile. So please remake this SVG file without <image> elements or try another SVG file.

I looked at Youtube where someone showed how to remove the "Image' tags within a text editor, but in my file there aren't any image tages.....

So how difficult can it be to create a SVG file?????????????????????

Is there someone who can help me with this?

SirAegisGames · Answer

Any luck figuring this out? I am trying to do the same thing and having a hella-time getting it to 32 KB file size. I can get close, around 56 KB but I need it in a SVG Tiny P/S like you.

I found out if you have an <image> tag inside the file (open it in something like Notepad++), you'll be able to see if it does. This means your SVG isn't a "real" SVG, it's an image embedded inside an SVG. The original file needs to be a traced .ai file or a traced SVG to get it to format correctly as an SVG to use the SVG BIMI convertor.

However, the problem I have no, is getting the file size low enough.

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