Some techniques available in Illustrator are either not supported by the SVG format or are unusable because of bugs in Illustrator.
These pages explain in what the issues are and how to work around them:
- The Mesh Tool·
- Freeform Gradients·
- Layer Blending Modes·
- Effect › Stylize·
- Gradient Midpoints·
- The Text Panel·
- Transparent Gradients in Placed Files·
- Links in Placed Files·
Next Steps sections:
- Using alt-eyedropper tool to apply styles
- Setting New Document Defaults
- Don’t use the “All Caps” button
- Kerning must be set to Zero
- Desktop & Mobile Document Widths
- Shift-click to sample colors for a gradient
- Placed PDF’s may not contain placed bitmapped images
- SVG Decimal Places
- Don’t use _ in layer names
- Hidden Layers will be Hidden
- Don’t use transparency in gradients in placed Ai’s or PDF’s
- Pasted text does not retain paragraph style
- Non-printing Illustrator Layers
- How to use Hard Spaces in Adobe Illustrator
- Placed Illustrator files are embedded, not linked
- Illustrator Layers and SVG Object ID’s
- Installing Illustrator Scripts
- Mac shortcuts for AI scripts
- Potential Illustrator Issues
- Large Canvas in Illustrator
- Layers·
- SVG Shadows
- Illustrator Layers
- Unsupported Techniques & Workarounds·