Where is .svg support... where the heck is SUPPORT?

 

1. No .svg support?
   Seriously, I shouldn't even be asking for this! This is a standard vector image format that all modern browsers support.

DW isn't a browser.  At best, Design View is an approximation of what you might expect to see in some older browsers.  Live View is a little better because it emulates a webkit/Chrome engine.  But if you want to see advanced CSS level 3 properties like Gradients & SVG images, you'll need to preview in a browser.  I keep mine open all the time to check my work.

Feel free to submit a feature request.  If enough people ask for it, there's a good chance we'll see it in a future update.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

2.  Where's the documentation support for Dreamweaver CC?

There's a fair amount of crossover between DW CS6 and DW CC.   If you know how to use CS6, apart from a few menu changes & the new CSS Designer Panel, things aren't terribly different. 

Learn DW CC (videos)

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-dreamweaver-cc/

Creating your first web site in DW CC - (5-part tutorial)

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1.html

New CSS Designer Panel

http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/css-designer.html

Nancy O.

Hello Shwan,

hmm, let me answer only to svg support at the first moment (I'm smitten over a bit ): I fear it's not directly a question of DW it's so too a browser thing. Have a look to my example I made for a Japanese friend an try it in IE and in FF, the first can't show it (you have to unblock), in contrast to it FF. Here the link: http://hansgd.de/DWTest/svgO/object_data.htm.

And here two svg links, given as an example to insert the codes into your DW to "play" with:

http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_inhtml.asp
http://demosthenes.info/blog/428/Using-SVG-In-Web-Pages

Hans-Günter

shawninvancouver wrote:

 

Thanks for the replies everyone.

 

I understand that DW is not a browser, however, I should be able to drag/drop .svg images into the editor (as I can with .png) and the .svg images should display. 

 

I know I can use the code editor to manually code in .svg but if I wanted to manually code/insert a .svg image, I would just use NotePad ++ editor or Aptana Studio.

 

Thanks again folks.

While it's not drag and drop, you can add an SVG as an image in DWCC pretty easily

Ctrl + Alt + i > Choose All Files from the dropdown > Pick an .svg that's in your site folder

It shows up like any other script include/embed, just a gray box in Design View.

Works fine in Live.

What I do know is that selecting Help, from inside Dreamweaver, does not open up to content specific help. That is absolutely ridiculous!

FWIW, I agree with you.

I have always found Adobe's online help cumbersome, meandering and vague at best and poorly structured or irrelevant to my immediate question at worst. I've never found targetted, context sensitive help that way.

I always find my answers (in Adobe resources or 3rd party sites or forums) via a Google search. It's quicker and more relevant to the question at hand. I usually get answers (or at least clues to solve it myself) in seconds.

John, I agree with you. I used to tell my students this joke:

"Once you really understand how to work in DW/PH/Illy/InD you might begin to work out what the help files are telling you".

Or in other words: the help files are a great reference AFTER you learned how to use these applications.

:-)

Otherwise, google is your friend. As are the people in this community.

"Once you really understand how to work in DW/PH/Illy/InD you might begin to work out what the help files are telling you".

Yup, agreed.

My paraphrase: the help files are written by experts, for experts - or for those with lots of time to wade through the meandering novice-level verbosity to find the occasional nugget of gold.

shawninvancouver wrote:

 

No .svg support?
Seriously, I shouldn't even be asking for this! This is a standard vector image format that all modern browsers support. What the heck?
I found a plug-in from a few years ago but it doesn't work.
How do the rest of you handle vector images?
Why isn't there outrage over this terrible image support?

...

 

Am I wrong? Am I missing something?

 

But most important, where is the .svg support! Is Dreamweaver a serious web design tool?

 

 

Hi

Welcome fellow voice in the wilderness .

Dw does have good svg, (stand alone document) code support, providing one does not mind coding by hand, and one does not wish to do so inside an html5 document.

Live views svg is on-par with Chrome, (which does not say much, as Chrome fails miserably in my opinion).

I have been asking for better svg support since CS5, but until many others also ask for better support, Dw development will not take notice of the requirement. Adobes current thinking appears to be that we can create svg in Illustrator, edit the svg in Dw, and then embed/link-to in the html. Which is all very well but as svg is an integral part of html5, I think Dw should support direct svg code editing in an html5 document.

SVG is not actually an image until it is translated in a browser or svg viewer, until that time it is nothing more than code, so editing svg as an image should I think still be done in Illustrator or Inkscape, as one can apply the same argument to svg as normal image editing, it is best done in the correct program, (PhotoShop).

If you want better svg support then you, (and anyone else wishing this) should file a feature request, (link supplied in Nancy's post).

PZ

GOOGLED: ADOBE TV SVG

found this resource...among others

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cc/responsive-svg-in-illustrator-cc/

here is the manual

http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/dreamweaver_reference.pdf

I found it by googling"dreamweaver cc help pdf"

This resource is a good one too

http://www.w3schools.com/svg/

Google is always the better search engine, always look there for your adobe pdf manuals. You'll find them.

Once the pdf comes up you can do ctrl+F to find what you are looking for

Hope this helps. Happy coding

Shawn,

I am sorry for your struggles. I have been there. Keep your chin up... your

time spent researching will not be a waste.