camgk Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Hi All, New user to affinity designer here! I am trying to import some svgs into the program, but they seem to always come up as completely black. It seems to be fine on browser SVG viewers and AI. another problem is the dotted bands either side do not properly import either, they load in as this shape attached. Any advise on how I can get this to properly import? Cheers! EmanueL-AT and rgladwin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Hi and welcome! Affinity's SVG parser handles just a common subset of the SVG specification, meaning it doesn't handle all the SVG spec offers. So in your case it probably doesn't know to deal with the defined styles there. - So if you have Illustrator too export as PDF (try PDF for exchange) and try to import the PDF into Affinity instead. rgladwin and camgk 2 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Burton Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 I just hit exactly this. It appears that Affinity doesn't parse embedded CSS correctly, which is a damn shame as I just spent two evening making a tool that exports SVG with CSS files to discover my time was wasted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgladwin Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 On 3/7/2021 at 6:06 AM, v_kyr said: export as PDF (try PDF for exchange) and try to import the PDF into Affinity instead. There are online tools as well. I tried this and it worked: https://cloudconvert.com/svg-to-pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaq6931 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Hi all, Well, I have experienced the same thing, but found a solution. I cannot take credit for it, but I found it in a Quora Google thread. I have tested it in both Affinity Designer 2.3 and Publisher 2.3 and it is a super easy fix - at least it was for me. When you open your SVG and see the dreaded solid black. Look in your Layers palette. You will see that there is a "rectangle" layer AND the actual image layer (At least this is what I have seen on my SVG images with this issue.). You will see that the rectangle layer looks to be solid black -- and, yes, it is as it has a black fill AND a stroke (usually). All you have to do is select that black rectangle layer and then choose "no fill" and leave the stroke if you want one -- or choose "no stroke" for the image as well. VOILA! You can now see your image. I hope this works for everyone else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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