Affinity Designer: error when importing an SVG file

[Pyanepsion]

Hello everyone,

When you paste or open an SVG file in Affinity Designer, since you are importing the Affinity Designer file into Affinity Publisher, Affinity Publisher mistakenly declares the resource to be missing.

When you export the Affinity Designer file as an SVG and then integrate it into Affinity Designer, the Affinity Designer file is no longer accepted in Affinity Publisher either.

This is a recent malfunction that has been observed in most SVG files from, for example, Wikipedia.

Coat of arms of France 1211-1376 : SVG File

 

[walt.farrell]

Having your .afpub and .afdesign documents would help understand the problem, I think.

But it sounds like you're saying you have:

1. A .afdesign file with a Linked SVG resource Placed in it.
2. A .afpub file in which you have Placed the .afdesign file, perhaps also Linked.

If that's right, you have a situation where you're expecting to use a Linked file with its own Linked files; that is, multiple levels of Linking. That's an interesting idea, which I've never experimented with.

[Pyanepsion]

1. Download an SVG file, for example from Wikipedia.

2. Open Affinity Designer, and create an artboard with a specific size, resolution, and color format, for example 2×2 inches, 400 dpi, CMYK.

3. Open in InkScape and ungroup everything (or open directly in Affinity Designer and ungroup).

4. Paste the SVG objects into the working plane.

5. Save the document Affinity Designer. Also make an export in SVG.

6. Open Affinity Publisher, and create an image frame of the same value as in Affinity Designer, for example 2×2 inches, 400 dpi, CMYK.

7. Import the Affinity Designer file or import the SVG file from Affinity Designer (or from Wikipedia). Neither file is integrated.

[Lee D]

@PyanepsionCan you take a look at the screen recording I've included to confirm the steps are the same from the point of inserting them into a Publisher doc. But I also have a few questions on your workflow above.

1, Is creating a document with an artboard with a specific size, DPI and colour format required? I just started a new document and placed the downloaded SVG and saved as an .afdesign file

2, Why open the SVG in InkScape and ungroup it? Again is this step required for the workflow?

3, Where are you copying from (InkScape?) and Pasting to? Same as above

4, Do the frame properties have to be exact for this to occur

5, Which version of Publisher are you using?

[Pyanepsion]

@Lee D

5. This is the newest public version of the Affinity suite (1.10.4.1198,). The malfunction is identical with the beta version (Publisher 1.10.2.1187, Designer 1.10.5.1227).

0. This appears to be the same process except that the image frame is often in the master page.

1. In this example from Wikipedia, the logotype must be cropped into a 2×2 inch square on a page of a book created with Publisher. The Publisher PDF should be in CMYK at 400 dpi. To optimize the resolution of the PDF file produced by Affinity Publisher, I created an artboard in Affinity Designer with the same dimensions, colour format, and colour profile as it will have in Affinity Publisher.

2. It doesn't seem to be necessary, in general, to have to ungroup in InkScape anymore, and that's a good thing, but it still happens sometimes. I don't have an example in my memory, but I've encountered this problem again recently. I've encountered the same problem with SVG images found on svgsilh.com and elsewhere.
Note, by the way, that some SVG files are originally enclosed in an unnecessary transparent frame on the original site, which must be removed in Affinity Designer if you want to work on that image.

3. Once the entire SVG image appears to be fully ungrouped in InkScape, I grab the entire image and paste it into the artboard, then change the size to fit into the artboard, work on some of the objects, and then group the whole thing. I then centre the group in the artboard.

4. The malfunction also happens in Affinity Publisher when you have worked in Affinity Designer with a larger artboard (20 inches), or when its profile is different (RGB), or when the resolution is different (72 dpi).