Clipping will be lost on roundtrip to Tiny?

[P***@adobeforums.com]

I am trying to open a file that I pulled off of wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg

and I get the following error dialog box.

"Clipping will be lost on roundtrip to Tiny"

In the box it also has a yellow triangle with a black exclamation point in it.
Also it says the following items could not be imported properly.

When you click ok it shows a clipped image to what might be an 8.5 x 11 sheet .

Rather odd. any ideas on why this is happening?

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Look up SVG in Illustrator's online help. SVG Tiny is a subset of SVG intended for use with mobile devices such as cell phones. It does not support certain constructs, among them clipping masks. The graphic you are working with contains a clipping mask. The alert is simply telling you that the clipping mask will not survive the trip back to SVG Tiny, if you save it in that format.

JET

[P***@adobeforums.com]

Post by J***@adobeforums.com
Look up SVG in Illustrator's online help. SVG Tiny is a subset of SVG intended
for use with mobile devices such as cell phones. It does not support certain
constructs, among them clipping masks. The graphic you are working with
contains a clipping mask. The alert is simply telling you that the clipping
mask will not survive the trip back to SVG Tiny, if you save it in that format.
JET

Thanks, That makes sense but how do I remove the clipping mask? I just wanted
to open the file without any clipping.

[B***@adobeforums.com]

Place the file in a new document, rather than just opening the file, then you can remove the mask and preserve the masked areas.

[P***@adobeforums.com]

Thanks that did the trick.

And thanks for not teling me to look at the on-line help. The terminology is
still new to me.

Post by B***@adobeforums.com
Place the file in a new document, rather than just opening the file, then you
can remove the mask and preserve the masked areas.

[j***@g.clemson.edu]

Post by B***@adobeforums.com
Place the file in a new document, rather than just opening the file, then you can remove the mask and preserve the masked areas.

I have this same problem with a downloaded SVG. However, placing it in a file still results in the same error, clipping the image when it is imported, before I can remove the mask. How can I open this file, because this solution is not working.

[J***@adobeforums.com]

The terminology is still new to me.




That's why you need to read the documentation.

JET