SVG loading as a Image

[BigAlastair (Alastair Creavy)]

I have some fancy svg’s made with adobe illustrator. I am using Lightburn Galvo. So import them and they show up as a image

[berainlb (PY)]

Is it possible you’re exporting to an image format and not actually SVG? Try opening in a text editor. SVG should be plain text and readable. Image formats will not be.

[BigAlastair (Alastair Creavy)]

Yes I got text

[berainlb (PY)]

Looks like Illustrator is embedding a JPEG image within the SVG file rather than retaining vector data.

Could it be how you’re exporting the SVG? Have you tried importing the .AI file directly into LightBurn?

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

Whatever you think you got, it isn’t an svg file.

Svg files do not contain grayscale, so it is an image file.

Does the filename have a .svg extension?

I though you could ‘drag and drop’ it from AI… ?

[berainlb (PY)]

@jkwilborn

Svg files do not contain grayscale

Note that SVG files themselves are perfectly capable of containing grayscale. However, LightBurn does not retain/display that information for its purposes.

[BigAlastair (Alastair Creavy)]

So I upload a adobe .ai file and same thing happened.
I don’t have $$$ right now to get them done again
Thank you for all your help

[berainlb (PY)]

These were commissioned files? If that’s the case then you didn’t get what you thought you were getting with the files. Sounds like you got an AI file containing a raster image rather than the base vector drawing data.

Can you connect with the designer and confirm or get them to send you the actual core vector data?