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How to open SVGs exported from Figma in Illustrator?

  • May 26, 2025
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meme_man_at_work

As you can see from this picture, every single spot that should have an image is empty and is instead save as an upside down swatch, but it’s not actually applied to it.
I suppose this has to do with how figma applies images as fills rather than treating them as images.

If I open the SVG in my browser it looks fine, but if I can’t import it into illustrator then I can’t really do much of anything with this

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meme_man_at_work
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  • May 26, 2025

Exporting to PDF does work, but often comes with other problems: