B.2 SVG Variants
The primary vector format used by Inkscape is called Inkscape SVG; as explained in 1.4 A Brief History of SVG, it is (almost) standard-compliant SVG with some Inkscape-specific extensions that affect only the editability of various object types in Inkscape, but never change their appearance. It does not make much sense to save as Plain SVG except when you are trying to achieve a modest file size gain or encounter some buggy software having problems with Inkscape SVG. Both SVG flavors have compressed varieties (using the .svgz file name extension), which produce much smaller files but are otherwise the same and should be understood by most SVG software.
SVG files exported from Adobe Illustrator can be opened in Inkscape as usual. ...
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