Clipping will be lost on roundtrip to Tiny?

[Cynyster]

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?

[Patric...@adobeforums.com]

[James_...@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

[Patric...@adobeforums.com]

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

[Ben_M...@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.

[Patric...@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.

[James_...@adobeforums.com]

The terminology is still new to me.

That's why you need to read the documentation.

JET

[jge...@g.clemson.edu]

On Monday, February 2, 2009 3:14:11 PM UTC-5, Ben_M...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> 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.