Peter Panino

Even when I set the VIEWBOX accordingly, the pictogram is not centered in Designer:

Even when I make the text centered with SVG attributes (central, middle), it is not centered in Affinity Designer (while it is correctly shown in any browser):

For specific reasons, I need to keep it as text.

Now I've used a font that is included in both Windows 10/11 and macOS - Arial: But now it isn't centered either in Designer for Windows or in Designer for Mac: Designer Windows: Designer Mac: How can I show it centered in both Mac and Windows versions?

test3.zip This SVG is displayed without problems and nicely centered in Affinity Designer 2.3.0 for Windows: But in Affinity Designer 2.2.1 for Mac, it is displayed completely differently and NOT CENTERED: Why is the image on Mac not centered? And how can I make it centered both on Designer for Mac and on Designer for Windows?

In other words, clicking with the Vector Flood Fill Tool on an empty transparent area should create a background rectangle with the current color filling out the whole document area.

Regarding this problem: After loading an SVG icon, it should be possible to fill the transparent background of the loaded SVG icon with the Vector Flood Fill Tool. This would save a lot of time: Instead of cumbersomely creating a background shape, you can fill the transparent background of the SVG icon with a convenient single click.

As I said, I don't need a fill tool for an existing object because I can simply change the color property of the object. So, IMO, the existing Vector Flood Fill Tool doesn't make any sense to me.

How do you do it?

It seems the Vector Flood Fill Tool does not work on a transparent background: In principle, this would be the main application for a fill tool, namely, the automatic filling of an empty area with a color. For an existing object, I don't need a fill tool because I can simply change the color property of the object. But maybe I'm just being dumb?

That should depend on the context: If the current tab contains an SVG document, then in your case, it should insert a circle element (and not a text element) into the current SVG document.

To make it more clear, here is the functional flow of the rendering process in my app:

The software can automatically detect that because I have programmed it to do so: If a valid SVG XML text is in the clipboard, the "Paste and render SVG from Clipboard Text" command is automatically enabled - otherwise, it is automatically disabled. In my screenshot above, the "Validate" button can also do this check after you manually edit the text in the editor.

I am not sure I understand your question. If you have an SVG XML text in the clipboard, you can paste it into my app, edit it, and save it again as an SVG file. My app also allows you to render the SVG as a raster graphic in different formats and sizes, and then export it (just as Affinity Designer does - but to more formats than Designer - even to .ICO).

This is an app I have built (not yet published) that can exactly do that: Creating an SVG rendering from SVG XML in the clipboard: