For nearly a year I have been able to copy and paste directly from Adobe Illustrator into Lightburn. Within the last few weeks I no longer have this ability. I am using the most recent version out Lightburn and Illustrator.
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Windows 10, Ruida version of lightburn. It appears I have the clipboard setting correct in Illustrator.
Do this for me:
- Run LightBurn
- Go to Help > Enable debug logging
- Run Illustrator
- Create a simple graphic
- Copy it to the clipboard
- Switch over to LightBurn
- Quit LightBurn
There will be a file in your Documents folder called LightBurnLog.txt - attach it here and I can have a look at what format Illustrator is putting on the clipboard and see if we can potentially load that. I donāt have Illustrator here, so most likely they have clipboard data that LightBurn already handled.
I canāt paste as well. This would be a killer feature.
See log: https://pastebin.com/0012t2Xv
Also screenshot: https://snipboard.io/Os1V7D.jpg
The log explains why. Illustrator is saying the data is just plain text, but itās actually an SVG file in XML format (which is technically plain text, but itās dumb of them not to tag it as SVG data). I can make the text paste code pre-check the content to see if itās actually something else.
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This should be fixed in the next release. I donāt have illustrator, but Iāve tested by copying the text content of an SVG from notepad and pasting, and that works.
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Thank you. I just test new version. It works great! Almost Only one problem that pasted shapes are not scaled correctly. I.e. if I copy shape 350x200mm from AI in Lightburn it paste as 262.493x149.992 mm size.
Thatās likely because itās being generated in āpixelsā, not mm or another proper unit of measure. LightBurn uses the InkScape definition of the px size, being 96 DPI. It looks like Illustrator uses 72 DPI. See if thereās a way you can control the SVG output to be in proper units, or at 96 DPI.
I did research online and unfortunately there is no setting in AI for this. And itās not like Adobe will implement that in this decade lol. Would it be too much trouble to implement the SVG DPI thingy setting in LightBurn so we can set custom DPI scale?
Youād need to change it every time you imported an SVG from somewhere other than Illustrator. Is there a DPI setting in Illustrator itself? (Iām curious if it has a global setting that might work)
In Illustrator preferences, under āFile Handling and Clipboardā untick (ie deselect) āOn Copy: Include SVG Codeā
Then in my test the Copy/Paste into lightburn comes in at the correct size.
I donāt know what other effects this has on other applications or functions but worth trying to see if it solves your problem
True, but most people (like my company and our business partners) only work with one vector draw application. So āother than Illustratorā for us does no exist 
Industry standard is Illustrator or Corel. This feature to copy and paste would be big time saver because we do loads of one off odd jobs and each time we have to save .AI file and import in to Lightburn.
No. This is know issue for some time now: inkscape - Change Illustrators "native" SVG resolution - Graphic Design Stack Exchange
If I do that, paste does not work at all. Not on the MacOS anyways. In the logs Im getting:
09:21:55.041 D: Clipboard data present:
09:21:55.042 D: ()
You cant set illustrator to work in ārealā dimensions like mm or inches instead of px?
Iāve logged the request in our bug database. Itās easy enough to put it on a switch.
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