SVG not appearing as expected

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Hi All

While having a play with SVG in Glyphs Version 2.4 (939), and referring to the handbook, I came across a couple of things that seemed odd. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong or if there’s a bug.

As gradients are allowed, according to the W3C spec, I made a simple gradient box in Illustrator and saved as an .svg
I dragged the file it into glyphs but only see the 4 node box shape and the preview shows a flat box. I exported as a woff and still just see a flat box.
I tried the same with a box giving it a flat colour but stil got the same result.

Also, I tried opening the .svg file via Add Image, as per the handbook, but the file is greyed out.

Is there a particular way the SVG needs to be saved? The images show up fine in the web browser preview that Illustrator shows in the save options.

Jamie

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In which app do you test? You may want to experiment with AI’s SVG export settings.

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I was going to test in both Firefox and Photoshop since they seem to be the first comparable environments.

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Can you send me one of the .svg files? Illustrator produces strange code and sometimes renders images (e.g., for shadows). Those are not supported.

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Thanks, Will do.
There are lot’s of save options for svg but running through Adobe’s export options I can’t see much that would effect the output of such a simple shape.