macOS Mojave doesn't display .SVGs in preview

The lack of .svg support in Preview has not changed from prior Apple operating systems, nor is it a bug. Finder will display .svg though, which is misleading to Apple's otherwise omission of support. You can right-click on a .svg and from the Open with sub-menu, choose Safari, Firefox, or Google Chrome as a view-only tool.

The Affinity products (Designer, Photo, and Publisher [beta]), GIMP, Inkscape¹, and probably Pixelmator (among select others) will open .svg files. LibreOffice will open .svg in its Draw application, via the main Open menu item.

¹ Inkscape requires XQuartz (X Window System) installation as it is not yet native on macOS.

This is a weird solution, but it's worked twice. I downloaded and installed a free graphics program (first time Gapplin, second time Krita) and had a folder with svgs open after I opened the graphics program. After relaunching Finder, the svg previews started showing up. This stopped working after the first time with Gappling, so I installed Krita the second time and now they're working again. Leaving this here for anyone who really needs this fixed.

My Mojave (and High Sierra) Finder and Quick Look display .svg files just fine. I do know that some applications do not generate well-formed .svg files, or create non-standard .svg format (Inkscape can generate different formats of the .svg standard), and some hand-coded .svg may be too complex for some applications like Illustrator to completely resolve.

I wonder if booting into Safe mode, and its housekeeping effects, may rebuild the launch services database, or clear out anything that may be interfering with Finder.

I would also be inclined to run the following Quick Look manager command from the Terminal that resets the Quick Look Server, and QL clients caches.

qlmanage -r

I didn't need to do any of the above for Mojave to work fine with .svg files.

I meant, if you open one of the svg files in Illustrator and save it. Not dragged from File Stream.

If you are using a local Google Drive client, you may need to update it, or wait for stated Mojave compatibility from Google. I only use Google Drive through a browser, and have no local filesystem .svg viewing issues with Mojave.

Don't know the issue. It would be different if not all the designers had the same issue. Do you all use Google File Stream? What happens if you just save an svg directly somewhere other than to your Google Drive?

They display fine here…

Can you post a EtreCheck report? Perhaps something you have installed is interfering.

http://etrecheck.com/

Well, I suppose it's possible the current SVG format isn't compatible but I don't know that. If you have Dropbox and want to post the link to it here someone can check.

Are all the designers on Mojave?

What program was used to generate the .svg's? I only have a couple but they work.

FWIW, the Finder nor Quick Look seems to display SVG files for the OP. He didn't mention the Preview app.

Beats me. The user is using Adobe CC which I assume includes Illustrator. I suspect you're correct that they are non-standard or not well formed.