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Known problems

There are some design features available in Illustrator which will not translate into SVG format. Here are a few of those things:

Gradients along and across strokes

A "gradient across" a stroke only produces a raster image, such as this one

Under its "Strokes" panel Illustrator 18.1.1 allows you to apply gradients both along and across strokes as well as within them. However, there is no equivalent SVG code for the first two, and if you create a stroke with a gradient applied along or across it, that stroke will be converted into an undesirable raster when Illustrator generates the SVG file. Bottom line: do not apply gradients along or across strokes in an image you wish to turn into an SVG file for use on Commons. There are other ways to get similar effects, though they are complicated. Gradients along and across strokes are proprietary Illustrator functions, not SVG ones.