Adobe broke SVG export in Illustrator CC 2015
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Wasn't their whole argument for going the SaaS route is that there would be continuous, quick updates? Over a month to fix a completely broken export feature is absurd, especially when they are charging users monthly.
But SaaS is a bleak future where we are completely at the mercy of such companies.
Historically Adobe hasn't had a lot of competition for much of this software. But they were kept "honest" by the boxed software model, and the fact that they wanted people to re-buy the same software every few years.
If they failed to offer compelling new features, the older Adobe software would just continue to be used indefinitely (and they'd lose income). Same with MS Office (it competes with itself).
Now, with CC, you aren't paying for new versions and instead just paying for "basic" access to their software. So if they just bug fix and don't provide any substantive improvements for ten years, you're still stuck paying them $10/month or whatever. Only actual competition could change this equation, and there isn't much.
When I read that quote I thought for a second you might be parodying them, but that is actually what they said...
4-6 weeks is bonkers. It isn't like they're spending that time doing QA, as is self-evident by this issue.
Snap is good, and useful, but it's not that useful, it's just a tiny library, and a bit of a wasted opportunity IMO. With fairly crap documentation beyond the basics. I would love it if there was movement on this, a better SVG workflow from Illustrator -> Web would make my life a lot less frustrating, but v0v it's Adobe and they either move at the speed of a geriatric snail or they stomp all over tools I find useful
Adobe has been pushing SVG and the tooling hard. Illustrator is great at SVG. If they want to kill it and replace it with a proprietary format, they're doing a fucking awful job.
Remember that it was actually Microsoft who created and pushed for the RTF format as a common interoperability file format for word processing documents. This was way back when Microsoft and its Microsoft Word™ was the newcomer against the established giants in the field of word processing: Word Perfect, WordStar, etc. Of course, when Microsoft Word gained popularity (through no direct advantage of its own – it was using its coupling with Microsoft Windows, which the competition was wary of), then Microsoft lost all interest in RTF standardization.
The workaround I use is opening the .svg in a text editor and editing the properties manually, you can clear out a bunch of adobe auto generated garbage and get the file nice and small.
The reason they gave was, in effect, “well, the internet is faster now, so you don’t need to optimize your SVGs.”
ALWAYS wait for the x.0.1 and keep your prior versions handy.
The only problem with this update is Adobe forgot how bad they are at x.0 releases, defaulted to deleting prior versions, and made it cumbersome to just say no.