Last updated on
Jun 8, 2021
- Adobe XD User Guide
- Introduction
- Design
- Artboards, guides, and layers
- Shapes, objects, and path
- Text and fonts
- Components and states
- Masking and effects
- Layout
- Videos and Lottie animations
- Prototype
- Create interactive prototypes
- Animate prototypes
- Object properties supported for auto-animate
- Create prototypes with keyboard and gamepad
- Create prototypes using voice commands and playback
- Create timed transitions
- Add overlays
- Design voice prototypes
- Create anchor links
- Create hyperlinks
- Preview designs and prototypes
- Share, export, and review
- Share selected artboards
- Share designs and prototypes
- Set access permissions for links
- Work with prototypes
- Review prototypes
- Work with design specs
- Share design specs
- Inspect design specs
- Navigate design specs
- Review and comment design specs
- Export design assets
- Export and download assets from design specs
- Group sharing for enterprise
- Back up or transfer XD assets
- Design systems
- Cloud documents
- Integrations and plugins
- Work with external assets
- Work with design assets from Photoshop
- Copy and paste assets from Photoshop
- Import or open Photoshop designs
- Work with Illustrator assets in Adobe XD
- Open or import Illustrator designs
- Copy vectors from Illustrator to XD
- Plugins for Adobe XD
- Create and manage plugins
- Jira integration for XD
- Slack plugin for XD
- Zoom plug-in for XD
- Publish design from XD to Behance
- XD for iOS and Android
- Troubleshooting
- Known and fixed issues
- Installation and updates
- Launch and crash
- Cloud documents and Creative Cloud Libraries
- Prototype, publish, and review
- Import, export, and working with other apps
A complete list of features that are supported and non-supported features when you open an Illustrator file in XD.
When opening Illustrator files in XD, most of the layers and effects are retained with exact visual fidelity and are editable. However, some Illustrator features are not compliant and are transferred as vectors or not transferred at all.
Supported features when you import an Illustrator file
- Vector shapes
- Paths
- Artboards
- Text with styles
- Embedded and linked Images
- Groups
- Boolean operations
- Layers structure and proprieties (locked and visibility)
- Clipping masks
- Components as expanded layers
- Strokes and fills
- Drop shadows
- Opacity
- Object and background blur
- Linear, radial, and angular gradients
- Patterns as images
- Vertical text as outlines
- Text on path as outlines
Non-supported features when you import an Illustrator file
- Inner shadows
- Transparency masks
- Photoshop and SVG filters
- Blend modes
- Gradient mesh
- Feather effect
- Text kerning
- Components are imported as shapes on canvas, but linked behavior is not preserved or added in the Assets panel.
- Glow effect appears as object blur.
- Document swatches or global colors are not transferred as color swatches in XD.
- Character styles are not transferred as styles to the Assets panel.