SVG import fails

[JariH]

Hello

I could not find any posting related to this. Seeking possible information and advice, where to start digging.

• Affinity Designer 2
• macOS 12.6.3

I need to render svg-files from Blender (V3.4.0) to edit them in vector format in Designer. They refuse to open in Affinity Designer.  

Mac Quicklook, Adobe and Safari web browser opens them fine. Any advice what to try next, please? I have attached a svg-file here if anybody interested:

Test0001.svg

[joe_l]

8 minutes ago, JariH said:

Seeking possible information and advice, where to start digging.

Remove the following line from the file with a simple editor. Maybe worth a feature request, that AD should ignore this line.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ascii'?>

[JariH]

1 minute ago, joe_l said:

Remove the following line from the file with a simple editor.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ascii'?>

Thank you.

That did the trick.

[GarryP]

I'm pretty sure that it's the "ascii" encoding that is the problem, rather than the whole line.
An alternative to the advice above would be to see if you can tell Blender to use a different encoding, such as “UTF-8”, when creating the exported SVG.
That way you shouldn’t need the extra editing step.

[joe_l]

1 minute ago, GarryP said:

I'm pretty sure that it's the "ascii" encoding that is the problem, rather than the whole line.

Yes, this is correct.

[GarryP]

Thanks for confirming that.
I think I might have come up with the same problem when I was creating some SVG code procedurally a while back but couldn’t remember if I had remembered it correctly.

[JariH]

Thanks joe_l & GarryP.

I don't know how to change svg encoding when rendering from Blender. Editing xml is quick and dirty way. I can live with, it's just a few files.

[GarryP]

This thread has some more information: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/132634-svg-file-not-supported/
We are told that the issue has been logged with the developers.

[v_kyr]

The Blender folks should be aware of that ...

• https://devtalk.blender.org/t/freestyle-svg-encoding/11868

[Andreas CH]

Da der Eintrag nicht stimmt, habe ich ihn wieder gelöscht.

Since the entry is not correct, I have deleted it again.

[JariH]

11 minutes ago, Andreas CH said:

... Another observation.

The Test0001.svg can be opened with the Publisher.

And this is how you bring it into the designer.

1. Place Test0001.svg in Publisher
2. Click on "Edit document"
3. Select all (Ctrl+A)
4. Copy (Ctrl+C)
5. In the Designer "New from Clipboard"

Sorry, unable open or import into Publisher either (V2.0.4).

[Andreas CH]

Ups, sorry

Da habe ich die konvertierte Datei erwischt.

Du kannst Test0001.svg mit InkScape öffnen und unter neuem Namen speichern.
Nun lässt sich die Datei im Designer öffnen.

 

I got the converted file.

You can open Test0001.svg with InkScape and save it under a new name.
Now you can open the file in Designer.

[v_kyr]

6 hours ago, JariH said:

I don't know how to change svg encoding when rendering from Blender. Editing xml is quick and dirty way. I can live with, it's just a few files.

Yes, that's pretty trivial to fix!

1. Opening your Blender generated "Test0001.svg" file inside some text editor.
2. In the first line of the SVG XML code one can see ...

   Quote

   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ascii'?>
   ...

   ... replacing the 'ascii' with 'UTF-8' ...
    

   Quote

   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
   ...

3. After that little change inside a text editor, saving the file and opening it again in ADe, APh or Apub. - It should now load and showup without any problems!

[JariH]

28 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Yes, that's pretty trivial to fix!

1. Opening your Blender generated "Test0001.svg" file inside some text editor.
2. In the first line of the SVG XML code one can see ...

   ... replacing the 'ascii' with 'UTF-8' ...
    

3. After that little change inside a text editor, saving the file and opening it again in ADe, APh or Apub. - It should now load and showup without any problems!

Thanks. I use the text edit trick. I meant, I don't know if it is possible to tell Blender to encode UTF-8. This seems to be a problem in "Freestyle SVG Export" Add-on