Hietaharju Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Hi! I am just testing Affinity Publisher to see if it can fit our purposes. I have a heap of AI files with some symbols and stuff and i need convert it all to SVG but that does not work as expected. I have spent some time searching for solution and finally I turn to you pro´s! Today I have several AI files containing multiple workspaces with different symbols. For instance I have a file called accessories.ai that contains all our accessories in different workspaces in that file. I can open that file in Affinity just fine and even export all these workspaces to SVG but it does not just take the illustration, it takes the whole workspace. It works if I save the accessories.ai in Illustrator to a file per workspace to .ai and then open those ai files in Affinity one by one and then choosing select all and then exporting and then selecting Area: Selection only. But as said I have many of these files so doing one by one will take days or even weeks since we have hundreds of symbols. Attached a image how it looks when the AI is converted to SVG with Affinity as a batch. I get a blue fram around the object and that could be fine but some symbols are huge and the blue frame gets then extremely big. We are today using Adobe Illustrator but it's not working so great with linked svg´s so we need to find another solution that would do the trick. Hope I was clear with my problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Hietaharju. 59 minutes ago, Hietaharju said: Today I have several AI files containing multiple workspaces with different symbols. For instance I have a file called accessories.ai that contains all our accessories in different workspaces in that file. I can open that file in Affinity just fine and even export all these workspaces to SVG but it does not just take the illustration, it takes the whole workspace. When you open one of those AI files in Affinity Publisher, how many layers are there on the page (or on each page, if there are multiple pages)? If you can’t share your APub file here, please at least post a screenshot of the Layers panel, fully expanded to show the structure of the document. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hietaharju Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 Hi @Alfred! Happy to be here and no problem, I can share the file. You get it both as the original ai file and also as afpub. There are 47 pages. accessories.afpub Tillbehör.ai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Hi @Hietaharju , You need to use an AD file or a PDF, not directly the AI file, to be able to select the pages/artboards: exxample.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 4 hours ago, Hietaharju said: ... For instance I have a file called accessories.ai that contains all our accessories in different workspaces in that file. I can open that file in Affinity just fine and even export all these workspaces to SVG but it does not just take the illustration, it takes the whole workspace. ... See this thread here, especially the comments & screenshots for how to setup and tryout exporting only the illustriations then via the Affinity Export Persona. You have to setup the slices from the groups, aka export the layers "B-DWS", "B-SAM", ... etc. from inside/under the Artboards/Workspaces (not the whole Artboards/Workspaces themselves)! - See: Other than that there are also a bunch of Online AI-to-SVG converters (like this one) etc., if you do a "Google search let's say after that topic: ai_to_svg". Though I'm not sure if these online tools do always plain vector based conversions, maybe they rasterize things instead (NOTE that I didn't tried those out, you've to do on your own). 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...
Wosven Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Oups! I was in DTP mode, and the first line begining by APub didn't help me. It's only about converting to SVG, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Sorry if I write stupid stuff here, but do I see it right that only the drawings should be exported? If so, you could use "Selection area" or "Area only". This would require that each drawing be selected and then written to an SVG file via the export. accessories_p1.svg Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hietaharju Posted March 2, 2022 Author Share Posted March 2, 2022 Hi all and thank you for your help! I had a Eureka moment last night. I am so stupid... So this is now solved. How did I solve it? Since we have Adobe Illustrator I was able to make a batch processing of all these files. I have not yet figured out if batches are possible with Affinity but I know to use Illustrators macro feature. So I exported all hundreds and hundreds of symbols to svg and it worked just fine. Yes it took some time since illustrator still needs to open every file and do it's magic but atleast I could go and drink coffee and socialise with my dear colleagues while illu did the job... I am very impressed with Affinity and it seems like Affinity is the software we need. Our main problem with Illustrator is that all linked ai files makes the document almost impossible to work with. The worst document haves just now 86 layers and most likely hundreds of linked ai files. So our goal with Affinity is to still have many layers but change all linked files to svg instead. So today I will make a document with 86 layers and see if it's workable. Thank you once again and have a great day! /Marko Komatös 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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