How to export a flattened image as part of an SVG export in Affinity Designer

[hmurray]

Hi all,

I'm creating a design for a birthday card that will be exported as SVG and used with Cricut Design Space to cut out on a Cricut cutting machine. I'd like to include in the file a shape which is a square with cutoff corners (see attached file) with a Happy Birthday sentiment. I'd like to use the 'print then cut' feature on the Cricut where you print out the image and the Cricut then cuts around it. I can use the flatten feature in Design Space to create something that can be used for 'print then cut' from the attached but I'd like to sell this design in the future so would like to be able to export it ready done if possible. I can't see an equivalent flatten option in AD but maybe I'm missing something.

When I export the whole document the pixel layers for the sentiment are not exported. Perhaps I shouldn't have rasterized the curves? Or is there something else I could do so that they will be exported along with the rest of the document as part of the SVG?

Many thanks for any help you can give me

Happy Birthday sentiment.afdesign

[Dan C]

Hi hmurray, 

The rasterised layer is likely being exported (I just tested this and it seems to be fine when viewed in a browser).

It's more likely your cutting software doesn't know what to do with the raster information, so you'd need to recreate the text layer as curves to allow the cutting machine to follow those curves once exported as an SVG.

Lee

[hmurray]

Thanks Lee, the problem is that I don't want to follow the curves of the text, I just want to print the whole thing and then cut out the outermost shape (the pink square with cut off corners). Is the export that you did, all one image within a shape?

[NotMyFault]

2 hours ago, hmurray said:

I can't see an equivalent flatten option in AD but maybe I'm missing something.

Can you export as png (this will be flattened)?
you can open the png in Designer and save that again in any format, or just use place command to add the png as a new layer on top.

[v_kyr]

See also related ...

... and some other forum based threads about SVG & Cricut cutting ...

• site:forum.affinity.serif.com svg Cricut cutting machine

 

[hmurray]

Thanks all, exporting to PNG has allowed me to import into Cricut design space in the correct way. It looks like the two being part of the same file was what was confusing design space but if I import them separately then all is good. Thanks for your help.