Hi, I can confirm that SVG import/export improved substantially with Illustrator CS2.
Element primitives are supported, symbol definitions are exported as SVG symbols and patterns are exported as SVG patterns. Also there is now an option to disable kerning when exporting text to avoid having a lot of tspan elements within the text element. CS2 also exports SVG fonts and cleanly exports text on path, which was previously exported as individual glyphs. I also like the possibility to export to a tiny or basic profile. I can also confirm that roundtripping already works to certain extent, e.g. elements in a certain namespace are preserved when importing SVG and can be exported again. So, if you work a lot with SVG I would really recommend that you invest the money and upgrade to CS2. There are, however, problems when importing SVG files with a viewBox coordinate system that does not match a traditional paper sizes, as it is usually used in mapping. Those files cannot import at all (I see the imported elements in the layer manager, but they don't show up in the graphics canvas). I also had some stroke-width problems when importing elements in a viewBox coordinate system. I sent these files with a bug report to Adobe and hope that these import problems will be solved in either a dot release (if there is any) or the next major version. Andreas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hgkl2rm/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1706030389:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124326884/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
