Surprising SVG Issues? Or More Likely a Possible False Alarm?

[SymbioticDesign]

One thing I loved about Designer was that I didn't have to worry about the SVG files, until I had that issue with the spacing on my logo lettering. I wound-up not using SVG as much as possible, after that.  And quite honestly, that's pretty difficult if you want to take advantage of SVG strengths. That logo is still giving me fits when I load it.

So, I made another one, I want to take advantage of the SVG format.  I wanted a nice one for the website.  I made it, it looked lovely in Mobirise (website builder), and then I published it and the web browser only saw one of the groups... D E S I G N TM

So, I thought something was wrong, but that logo is central to my website's design.  I was absolutely miffed.  I had to design the website on my old 2011 iMac, because I couldn't run Mobirise on the Apple Silicon without running the Rosetta emulation layer, and I refuse that because I intend to install AI software on the Mac, if it is ever ready.

So, I had just installed the latest versions of everything for the Affinity software suite version 1.  Because of that, and because I could do other stuff, why bother if it only happens in version 1, right?

Until just now, I am using Version 2 and the latest updates are installed. Instead of Design, I am in Photo 2, as I am working with raster images. But I save an SVG export (I actually try to do this for every graphic, just in case the other file gets corrupted), and the result is that 1 layer (the back layer) shows up and the front layer does not...

But, here you can see that the selected icon for the SVG only has a folder showing. That is only 1 of the two layers. You can see the other layer in the File Info for that image, showing how it is supposed to look, though.

But here, I am using the most current version of Photo 2 to make these images.  The end result will be a character over the folder because a picture is faster to recognize than scanning text. An example is the T. Rexx folder for my "Rock n' Roll Dinosaur."  However, FireFox and Edge open it and displays both layers as intended, so this may not a quirk in Photo 2.

I'm still quite curious as to what it is.

I had no problem generating all the icons for everything though, they all work great.

So, I'm not sure what happened either time, I just thought that I should mention it.  I really don't want to use the old iMac anymore for anything other than a DVD player.  And the strangeness of an icon preview for an SVG could have to do with the fact that I don't really have an app dedicated to previewing SVGs?

 

 

 

[v_kyr]

Well share the ADe/APh and/or SVG exported file for inspection. - What you showed so far is meaningless for some deeper problem inspection, as nothing essential like the Layers palette etc., or how the exported SVG code looks like, is shown. Usually there shouldn't be much differences between the by V1 and V2 apps exported SVG code, as far as no new bugs have been introduced with V2 apps here.

[SymbioticDesign]

OK... No problem.

When I get back to the other machine I'll see if I can reproduce the issue with that logo.

 

[Dan C]

Hi @SymbioticDesign,

Sorry to see you're having trouble!

As mentioned above, can you please attach a copy of your .afphoto file and a screenshot of your SVG export settings so that I can investigate this further?

If you'd like a private upload link for this file, please don't hesitate to ask