jkprg

It would be nice to have an option to disable artboard background during exports. Yeah workaround is to create a layer with background and uncheck it during an export. But I always tend to keep number of layers as low as possible... (moreover Sketch has such an option :))
Thx

+1 for a
1) trim transparent pixels
2) trim pixels with top left color (or selected color)
 
both in photo and designer

This is indeed a known issue and is happening because those ellipses are actually path objects where both the start and end point are on the same position. Because of this they're getting ignored on import - this also seems to be the case on Illustrator as well. Inkscape does display the objects, but they're unselectable by regular methods - the only way I could select them was by using the XML Editor.

I will bump the issue with development, however I would suggest also contacting Kicad and request the possibility of getting these objects out as Ellipses in the SVG instead of 0 width paths.

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