Why are my SVG paths distorted?

[Palm Equipment]

Hello,

I've saved down a bunch of icons from Illustrator as SVG to be made into an icon font.

Most are just fine.

But a few of them are distorted, the points and curves are jumbled by just a little bit here and there ... apparent when I open the SVG file back in Illustrator too.

In the example below, you can see that the edges of some of the shapes have moved when saved down (the font is Helvetica).

Is there a step I should take to save shapes down correctly as SVG from Illustrator CC 2014?

Regards,

Pete

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Looks like "Decimal places" has been set too low.

[Palm Equipment]

Thanks Monika. I've never noticed that option before. Fixed!

[RayGun Voss]

i realize this is an old post, but can you explain the "decimal places" a bit more?

thank you!

brandon

[Larry G. Schneider]

It's in the SVG Options dialog (the second Save dialog). If the dialog you have looks like this,

hit the More Options button to reveal this

[RayGun Voss]

thanks larry! really appreciate it.

i set the value to "0" but i still get mangled SVG output.

i also set it to 3 and 2 and and still got the same mangled affect.

any other advice?

thank you very much for you fast reply.

-brandon

[Larry G. Schneider]

Try something higher than 3. The more points behind the decimal, the greater the accuracy.

[RayGun Voss]

awesome, will try again today.

thank you!

-b

[Esodegrees]

thanks ...4 works for me

[RayGun Voss]

thanks larry,

i tired with a higher number and now it throws the sag off the art board by quite a ways.

will keep trying to find the variable.

thanks,

-b

[Larry G. Schneider]

You don't have Align to Pixel Grid turned on do you?

[RayGun Voss]

normally i would, but i haven't been using Pixel Grid on this icon set.

-b

[RayGun Voss]

we may have found a solution on this mystery SVG issue. we made the artboard for the icons 30x30 pixels. (up from 25x25)

so far things look good. no more degenerating of vectors and weird placement outside of artboard.

crossing finfgers, but i think we solved it.

-b

[cacnyc1]

This was driving me nuts! I just enlarged my artboard relative to the artwork and it worked. THANKS.

[Spacebugs Animation]

thanks alot bruv

[Marta32898378gsax]

Thank you! this was very useful

[seanc86828979]

yeah same problem, set decimnal to like 4. works perfect.

[Zesty27960879o75i]

Thank you helped! set to 5 the decimal ❤️