SVG workaround for Adobe Illustrator

[Ichabod]

I had a problem with opening SVG files created by Engare:

When opening in Adobe Illustrator, the file appears empty except for a single anchor point in the upper-left corner of the canvas. This is probably a defect with the SVG file not being written strictly "correct" according to the way Adobe Illustrator reads the markup.

The workaround for now is to open the SVG file in a web browser (I tried chrome and IE) and then print as PDF. Open the resulting PDF in illustrator and it works fine.

There may be an easy way to edit the SVG as text to repair for import, but I haven't looked closely.

[76561198411401711]

Ah thanks for letting me know.
I'll pin this post so others can see how you you solve the problem. Would be great if you change the title of this post to "SVG workaround for Adobe Illustrator"

I'll try to fix this in my code.

[Ichabod]

I tried a little more: I was able to open SVG files generated with Engare by using a free, open source program called Inkscape. From Inkscape, if I save as EPS or PDF, those resulting vector files can be opened in Adobe Illustrator.

[Ichabod]

And because I guess I'm compulsive about it, I was able to edit the SVG so that it works in both Illustrator and Inkscape. I found that in "absolute elliptical arc" segments (lines beginning with "A") written by Engare there's an optional parameter that's maybe not required by SVG specification, which is ignored by Inkscape and browsers, but is NOT ignored by Adobe Illustrator.

A line from an Engare SVG:

A 66.8216 66.8216 0 0 0424.4 487.883

And the corrected line:

A 66.8216 66.8216 0 0 0 0424.4 487.883

The missing parameter is the "sweep-flag," which is the third "0" in the corrected line.

[76561198411401711]

Ah this is helpful. I'll fix this the way you described it. Thanks so much for letting me know

[VJFranzK]

Interesting! Thanks for including .SVG which is often the best format!

[Mateus Auri]

I don't know why of all places, a steam game forum is where I would end up finding help for dealing with glitchy adobe stuff, but I thank you very much