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stitchsds
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June 21, 2023
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Text Disappearing in SVGs

  • June 21, 2023
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In the last week or so, we've started having the following issues with Adobe Illustrator:

 

To properly embed the font (Arial), we have to create SVGs using File > Export As. Using File > Save As to create SVGs does not embed the font properly for use in generating PDFs in AEM Guides using Native PDF Publishing on a Linux server. (If we create the SVG using File > Save As, the text doesn't disappear, but Arial is not embedded and graphics text in the PDF appears in a generic serif font.

 

Sometimes, some or all of the text disappears from the SVG after the SVG is created via File > Export As.

Under what conditions is the text disappearing? Sometimes it appears to be the grouped text and sometimes not. Sometimes the text that disappears is a single line.

 

We've not seen this problem until this week. We have tried various parameters in the Export As fields and the text disappears no matter what combination of settings we tried.

Version: Illustrator v27.6.1 (64-bit) and v27.0

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2023

Illustrator does not embed the font.

Save as will generate older code. Export for screens creates the more current SVG code.

 

You might want to ask the manufacturers of the other application about how an SVG needs to be coded in order to work.

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stitchsdsAuthor
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June 21, 2023

Export for Screens stripped ALL text from the graphic.

My problem isn't with AEM Guides not rendering the SVG properly when using Export As, but with Illustrator stripping out text randomly.

And yes, I also have conversations going with Adobe's AEM Guides technical support about why SVGs produced using File > Save As are not rendering fonts correctly. Export As seems to be a viable solution until Illustrator started removing text.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2023

Can you upload sample AI files?

How do you save them? Using which options?

What kind of text options are they?

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