Saving as SVG with cropped to artboard

[Filip5]

Hey guys, got another problem with saving my artwork.

I want to save an image as svg for web. Now, I have tried saving for web, which cropped everything to artboard, but there is no svg available. Furthermore, exporting as svg does not crop anything. Eraser is not working as I have used brush for paiting. I also tried cropping using pathfinder. I got weird result because of paintbrush, so that didn't work either.

Any ideas about this ?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Make a clipping mask (Object > Clipping Mask > Make)  the same size as the artboard.

[Filip5]

Well that didn't work for me at first try. Maybe because my layers weren't merged. I had to flatten everything and use clipping mask afterwards

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear you got it working.

But you should not have to flatten or merge layers.

When you select everything then thetopmost object will be your clipping mask and all clipped objects will move to the layer with the clipping mask.

[Filip5]

This didn't work that way. The top most rectangle did crop paths, but not paintbrush. Not until merged.

[Ton Frederiks]

Cropping is not hte right word, clipping is.

I do not understand what is not working, a clipping path clips everything that is selected below, including paintbrush paths.

Maybe you can share a problem example file?

[Filip5]

There is no need for example file. I did the job by flattening layers before clipping. Altough on another try a while ago, clipping mask did what you said. I might have been doing something wrong, but illustrator was doing some weird things back then. Thanks to your first response I managed to get it done.