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I'm having real trouble with saving a simple SVG in Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator keeps imposing its own canvas size on the export.
This is what I'm doing...
1) Draw an art board around the image
2) File > Save As
3) Change type to SVG
When I view the result, Illustrator has seemed to have resized the canvas arbitrarily
How can I control this so I can get my own size?
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Set your Illustrator Artboard to the dimensions you wish to have, these can be found in the top right when you have an Artboard selected. You'll want to select/highlight your Logo and crop the artboard to fit exactly. To do this, use the menu and select: Object > Artboards > Fit to selected art.
To save your artwork artwork as SVG, choose File > Export > SVG (svg). Check Use Artboards if you'd like to export the contents of your artboards as individual SVG files.
This is caused when the artboard is on decimal pixel value on X and Y, and when the size of the artboard is decimal as well Make sure that your artboards are located on integer values on the X and Y axis and has integer Width and Height. Try to rearrange them putting a integer value between them!
Your problem is that your SVG is being saved with the Artboard, which is set to the default document size.
Try using "Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds" before you save.
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The Mac Finder (which I'm assuming you're using to view your SVGs) tends to ignore SVG boundaries. Shouldn't matter in production, although it's a bit annoying when you're viewing them in a folder.
Open your SVG file in a text editor, paying special attention to the opening tag. Make sure the cartesian coordinates in the "viewbox" attribute matches what you have in mind.
In-depth explanation of what the code means: http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/SVG_Essentials/Coordinates
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Illustrator has an issue with artboards, ie "viewBox" in the .svg format. Try this: first adjust your artboard/canvas for your graphic in Illustrator, then save the file in .ai format.
Now from the .ai format you can save the file as .svg and your artboard will be as you adjusted it. Next time you open the .svg in Illustrator, the artboard will be messed up again, so you will have to work from the .ai file and just use the .svg on the web.
That means each time you need to adjust an .svg, you need to first save it in .ai-format, adjust the artboard, save it as .ai and then save it as .svg.
If you have a contact address to the people at Adobe, let them know...
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