If you were exporting an SVG from MuseScore and saw a checkbox option titled: 'Masking compatibility (Adobe Illustrator only)', what would you think it means?
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That there's a quirk(bug) in how Illustrator reads SVG files that means files destined to be opened there has to include nonstandard formatting in some way to accommodate.
And that as usual... Adobe do not care to correct the bug.
Maybe that it includes solely the black ink in the export instead of having both the black and the white on the page as part of the SVG? Like a transparent background
hypothesising purely in isolated context: but I'd stop, and ponder "I wonder what I /don't/ get by not using Illustrator?"
i.e. the question assumes some a priori knowledge of what masking is in the context of SVG > Illustrator, but doesn't assert what's "lost" [if anything] if that isn't the case.
[ for clarity on my subjectivity: I'm autistic and as such a trait I have is that i'm arguably [definitely :)] "overly-picky" when it comes to absolute meaning in context - so while I think I am a useful datapoint for accessibility - I'm aware that I'm perhaps an outlier for average reading of UI ]
Perhaps it adds some metadata that makes it easier to add a transparency mask afterwards… but that metadata is only understood by Illustrator, and other vector drawing apps are SOL?
As someone who has used illustrator only sporadically and unprofessionally, I'd presume that it's something I'd never have to click and thus wouldn't bother.
Anyways, I think I probably WOULD click it if I thought I needed to import it into illustrator -and illustrator only- immediately afterwards.
I'd expect it to be a compatibility setting to work around some way Illustrator imports SVGs, presumably to do with how it interprets SVG alpha masks. I'd not expect to have to check it unless I was using Illustrator. Which I'm not =)
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And that as usual... Adobe do not care to correct the bug.
i.e. the question assumes some a priori knowledge of what masking is in the context of SVG > Illustrator, but doesn't assert what's "lost" [if anything] if that isn't the case.
Anyways, I think I probably WOULD click it if I thought I needed to import it into illustrator -and illustrator only- immediately afterwards.
I'd expect it to be a compatibility setting to work around some way Illustrator imports SVGs, presumably to do with how it interprets SVG alpha masks. I'd not expect to have to check it unless I was using Illustrator. Which I'm not =)