MCodd Posted November 26, 2022 Posted November 26, 2022 Hi, this is a bit of a weird one. I’m a recent illustrator user, moving to the Affinity Designer user family (hi!) I use illustrator a lot for designing illustrations, etc, for use with Cricut software (Cricut is a company that makes plotters: digital cutting machines). Anyway, I usually export my designs as .SVG files to upload to the Cricut software, but for some reason though the files from Affinity are mostly uploading fine, any time there is a circle/eclipse, that shape will not upload. It’s in the preview of the file, but as soon as I try to upload it all the other shapes are there and the circles are gone. I’ve tried to convert to curves in case there was something strange happening there, but no dice. I’ve even tried using doughnut shapes (which upload fine) and removing the inner circle of setting the inner circle to 0%, but even these clunky tricks don’t work. As soon as the doughnut becomes a circle, it won’t upload. I found a partial solution, by converting the circle to a curve and then using the node tool to add an extra point, MOST circles then show, but some end up way way way out of position when the file is uploaded. I’m sure that I’m missing something obvious, but I can’t get on with my work at the moment and it’s driving me bananas. PS: I’ve only tried it on iPad as my laptop has bitten the dust, and whilst I await trying to get a new one I’m using the program on iPad. Quote
DM1 Posted November 27, 2022 Posted November 27, 2022 6 hours ago, MCodd said: Anyway, I usually export my designs as .SVG files to upload to the Cricut software, but Very odd. So circles exported as svg cannot be read by cricut software. I can export circles and they appear fine in a viewer and I can reload the svg file in AD and Vectornator. Could this be a cricut software issue? Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
MCodd Posted November 27, 2022 Author Posted November 27, 2022 Maybe, though I’ve never had this issue exporting circles with other programs (Illustrator, Inkscape, etc) so I think there is something in the way Affinity Designer is drawing the circles. I’ve converted them to curves, but I have a suspicion that Designer is forcing them back to shapes on export. If this is the case, I’d imagine there’s a setting somewhere to retain curves, but I can’t find it and was hoping somebody could direct me. Quote
DM1 Posted November 27, 2022 Posted November 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Paul Mudditt said: Converted to curves, export as SVG, import, back to rectangle and circle. It seems to undo the last conversion. I took an elipse. Converted to curves, exported as svg (got your result) so did it again, converted to curves, expanded stroke, exported as svg and reloaded it was now a curves layer. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
MCodd Posted November 27, 2022 Author Posted November 27, 2022 Hmmm. I assume there is a data saving behind the decision, but surely there is a way to override it? I can’t find anything in the export or preferences settings, though. I did stumble upon a way of adding extra nodes to force the curve through MUCH experimentation, but to be honest the extra time and effort involved in that is not ideal. Quote
MCodd Posted November 27, 2022 Author Posted November 27, 2022 That makes sense, @DM1, as essentially you are then creating a (very thin) doughnut, which does hold the curve properties. That would work instances where a ring shape could be used, but for cutting (or drawing) a circle would produce both the inner and outer cut/draw lines. Quote
DM1 Posted November 27, 2022 Posted November 27, 2022 8 minutes ago, MCodd said: but to be honest the extra time and effort involved in that is not ideal. Switching to node tool after converting to curves, and tapping anywhere on the circle creates another node. Svg now retains as curve. Not ideal. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
MCodd Posted November 27, 2022 Author Posted November 27, 2022 No, especially as I’m drawing things with hundreds of mistletoe and holly berries at the moment 😐 Quote
Paul Mudditt Posted November 27, 2022 Posted November 27, 2022 According to SVG specification at https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/ basic shapes like circles and rectangles are directly supported hence when you export to SVG circles will be described as circles even if you think they are curves because that is the most effective way of transferring shape data. Because basic shapes are part of the definition of SVG, I believe this problem is nothing to do with Affinity and everything to do with the third party software for the cricut machine. Looks like this issue has come up so many times there are FAQ about. Merge curves seems to the best suggestion since convert to curves cannot work. Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.3 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.3 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Mud’s Macros Library:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/
MCodd Posted November 27, 2022 Author Posted November 27, 2022 I didn’t think it was a mistake, but I was hoping that there might have been somewhere in the settings to turn off/bypass this bit of functionality. I had been looking everywhere and couldn’t find it but hoped there was something I could toggle off in the export settings. From the sounds of it there isn’t. Quote
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