Mask / clipping problems for SVG export in Adobe Illustrator.

[kescobo]

Files display fine in browser and open fine in Inkscape, but in adobe illustrator I get

instead of

Doing select-all and cmd+alt+7 (release clipping mask) solves the issue without any apparent ill-effects, so it's not a critical problem, but is a minor annoyance, and I thought worth mentioning in case someone else runs into the same issue.

[jkrumbiegel]

can you check how illustrator opens the same plot as a pdf? svg is Inkscape's base format, but not Illustrator's. So the import could do something weird.

[kescobo]

Do you mean saving as PDF from CairoMakie? I'm having some issues with that (ImageMagick throwing errors)

[jkrumbiegel]

That sounds weird, why is ImageMagick involved in that? Cairo can save pdfs directly

[kescobo]

🤷‍♂️ when I first tried CairoMakie.save("myfig.pdf", scene) it have me an error saying ImageMagick wasn't installed. When I installed it, I got a different error. Worth a separate issue?

[jkrumbiegel]

Sure!

[kescobo]

🤔 Can't reproduce the ImageMagick thing in a fresh environment 🤔

[SimonDanisch]

Might be due to the FileIO update. I think there were certain version mixes, that could run into trouble. On the newest versions, everything should be fixed, so could make sense that it went away in a fresh environment ;)

[jkrumbiegel]

if pdfs work now, could you report back regarding the clipping problem in illustrator?

[kescobo]

Yeah, was just doing that. PDFs look fine

[jkrumbiegel]

good, then let's blame this on illustrator's svg import for now, because there's probably nothing we can do if that's the case