Hi Jochen,

It would be great if the export to PDF/SVG function could keep each drawings as individual layer. At the moment when I export to SVG or PDF format, all items are stored in one layer and it can be messy. To avoid this, there are work-around obviously but would be great to have this by default ad would make to finalisation of our maps in Illustrator a lot easier.

Regards
Thomas

Hi Jochen,
If I save to PDF format an Illustrator project with several layers then the *.pdf file reopens with all layers. This is not the case for SVG format. I'm far for being an expert in SVG format so I'm not sure if there is a way to do this. I suppose the PDF generator can be configure for that.

My work-around is the following:

I create several "drawings" for the same cave in the following order

1 - Frame : I drawn a wide frame that includes all the features drawn in the other layers
2x - Text: include all the notes, names, etc (x being the level)
3x - Drawing: drawing of the cave (x being the level)
4 - UTM grid: drawing of the UTM grid

Then I export to SVG/PDF
- 1 and 2x (for each level x) without topographic path
- 1 and 3x (for each level x) without topographic path
- 1 and 4 without topographic path
- 1 with topographic path

Then I open each file in Illustrator and rebuilt the layers using the frame to ensure a good overlaying and no loss in scaling.

Unfortunately, this process is long, not that simple and prone to mistake...

I know very little about formats, programming and so on, so this is probably a long shot...
I understand *.svg don't handle layers but isn't it possible export each drawing to individual temporary SVG files then complied them as layers in *.pdf format?

Hi Jochen,

I am also interested in a simplified svg export.
I think that exporting each layer of caverender as an svg group is a good solution.
Is it possible to set it up?

Thank you very much !

It does the trick, this will allow to get rid of some error prone steps. Thanks

Thanks again !