An improved SVG-importer!

[Hugging_Bear]

Hi Victor,
my greatest wish for 2025 is an improved SVG-importer for Moho. The present one works fine for fairly simply graphics. But after importing more complex graphics, one needs to do a lot of clean-up work (colour correction). See example:

[SimplSam]

Looks like you are using Moho 14, but still using the 'old' Moho 12.5/13.5 SVG import add-on.

Moho 14 has the improved SVG importer built-in, which supports Gradients and Glow. Use: File > Import > SVG File...

Also .. to speed up some imports, use a new blank document, because if you have lots of Layers already in a document it will slow down the SVG importer.

[Hugging_Bear]

The 'new' SVG-importer is copy/paste of the old script SVG-importer! In other words, they are both identical! That's why I'm so disappointed with version 14. I upgraded to version 14 only because of the announcement of the 'new' SVG-importer.

[Víctor Paredes]

The 'new' SVG-importer is copy/paste of the old script SVG-importer! In other words, they are both identical! That's why I'm so disappointed with version 14. I upgraded to version 14 only because of the announcement of the 'new' SVG-importer.

Actually, SimplSam worked with us on version 14 (you will find him in the credits ). He did a fantastic job improving the svg importer.

[Greenlaw]

Hi Hugging_Bear,

Moho 14's built-in SVG importer has improvements that are not available in the mohoscripts.com version, so it's not identical.

If you installed the SVG Importer script from mohoscripts.com, you should remove it, as it is outdated and unnecessary for Moho 14.

[Hugging_Bear]

I made the test and got exactly the same results!!!
The new build-in SVG-importer might work better for other users, but I don't experience any difference.

[Hugging_Bear]

Hi guys,
I repeated a test for you, so you can see what I mean:

[SimplSam]

I think the problem is the add-on is overriding the in-built tool, because it has the same 'internal' name.

Try removing the add-on (remove: ss_svg_import.lua from <Custom Content Folder>\Scripts\Tool -- you can use menu: "File > Open Custom Content Folder" to get to it), as suggested by @Greenlaw, and restart Moho. You then should not see the [SVG] icon in the Tools panel. Then try your import/s again.

Or, you can send a test (.svg) file. But - I think the problem is the add-on 'override'.

[Hugging_Bear]

Hi guys,
I made a couple more tests with the old addon script (tool) SVG-importer removed:

PS: The word I was looking for was 'opacity'.

[SimplSam]

OK... now if you send a test file. I can try and see what is not working.

You can DM me.

[Hugging_Bear]

Here is the link to the project files and SVG-files: https://mega.nz/folder/sLtC3IiR#vqb2GGjryTNuH4_5IznGiA
The SVG-files that end in 01 are converted via Photopea. The ones that end in 02 are converted via Adobe Illustrator. I've already 'cleaned up' the Captain Hook character manually.

You can download the original eps files here: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/pir ... etail=true
https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/gir ... 342160.htm
Just download the zip file.

I decided to return to Adobe Illustrator for converting to the SVG format because those files remain the information which layers contain gradients and which not (but still corrupt the colours within each gradient).

Can anyone give me tips which are the best settings within Adobe Illustrator for obtaining the best results in Moho?

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi, Hugging_Bear.
I checked the files and the color differences you are seeing are because the original SVG is using different blending modes for many of its layers.
Sam pointed out that these blending modes are not part of the SVG, but a CSS instruction. And CSS is not strongly supported in SVG 1.1, which is what Moho is using. So these blending modes are not supported by the importer.

The workaround for now is to manually apply the blending modes to the layers in Moho after importing. Once the blending modes are applied, the artwork looks exactly as the original.

[Hugging_Bear]

The workaround for now is to manually apply the blending modes to the layers in Moho after importing.

In other words, I'm stuck with my clean-up work for now!
I estimated that clean-up work takes about 60% of workload per project. I had many good project ideas, that I dropped because I knew I won't have the time for all that clean-up work!
On the positive side: the expression 'for now' indicates the hope of some improvement in the future! That would be a huge time-saver indeed!