Working with Svgs

[Hellodesigners]

Hi,

Is there a way to make change only in a Svg (Black square svg) which is inside a Svg but without losing properties of the Svg which contrains the Black square svg ? I know that if you duplicate a Svg the changes will be applied to all instances, but is there a trick?

(I want to work with Svg not symbols)

Below a picture to better understand

Thank you

[Old Bruce]

Yes, you'll have to Embed the Black Square SVG file twice, once to be left alone and once to be edited.

Having said that I should point out that a lot depends on the type/flavour/style of SVG and where it was generated. If it was made by Adobe Illustrator I would say all bets are off, Adobe does things to standard export formats that only Adobe software can subsequently work with.

[Hellodesigners]

Thank you, can you show me how? I tried to import twice the Square svg but it applies in all instances

[Hellodesigners]

Svgs 2.afdesign

Attached file

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Hellodesigners said:

I tried to import twice the Square svg but it applies in all instances

You should be able to use File > Place twice, and get two unrelated copies. But if you Place it once, then duplicate the item, they will be linked together. I wonder if you are doing this, since you have named some of your items "duplicate".

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I just looked at your .afdesign file, and I am quite puzzled by several things that I see:

1. I have looked at it in both Designer and Publisher. In both applications, everything seems to be white, so all i see is (apparently) a white artboard. Items are visible in the Layers panel, but not on the screen.
2. When I look at it in Publisher, the Resource Manager shows all the embedded SVG files as being on Artboard #2, but your file only has one Artboard (named Artboard1).
3. None of your items are actually on Artboard1, according to the Layers panel.
4. If I try to select any of the items from the Layers panel, I do not see any sign of them being Selected on the screen (no Bounding boxes, for example).
    

[v_kyr]

Well your file is SVG x,y pos placement and size wise in contrast to the Artboard a total mess here ...

1. an Artboard of  x=0, y=0, w=1080, h=2343 pixels
2. a yellow SVG group of x=-25555.1, y=25323.9, w=5636, h=6649 pixels    // the yellow SVG groups x,y pos is far away drawn from the artboard and oversized
3. ... same for the other three SVG groups!

• Svgs-fix.afdesign

 

[Old Bruce]

Here is a file with some Placed and Copied/Duplicated and then four separately placed SVGs. In each case the SVG is the same. All have been edited by double-clicking on them. You can see how the SVG has been edited by Placing it again.

Test.zip

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

When I look at it in Publisher, the Resource Manager shows all the embedded SVG files as being on Artboard #2, but your file only has one Artboard (named Artboard1).

On my Mac, these files show as being on Artboard "2" but if I drag one of them into Artboard1, it then shows as being on "Artboard1" -- so somehow "2" isn't really the name of any artboard, just some odd way of showing that those objects are not in any artboard?

EDIT: I just tried adding an artboard to the file (in this case via the Designer persona of APub) & now in the Resource Manager all the SVGs as in "3" so it looks like the Artboard column just uses a number one greater than the number of artboards for items not on any of the actual artboards.

[v_kyr]

Interesting SVG effecting  ...

[Hellodesigners]

On 1/12/2022 at 10:48 AM, Old Bruce said:

Here is a file with some Placed and Copied/Duplicated and then four separately placed SVGs. In each case the SVG is the same. All have been edited by double-clicking on them. You can see how the SVG has been edited by Placing it again.

Test.zip 77.08 kB · 2 downloads

Thank you very much

 

[Old Bruce]

You are welcome. I hope it helps clear things up.