Svg stroke colour errors in cricut design space

[Rarast]

Hi, I hope someone can help as I am so stuck. Am using affinity designer 2 for the iPad to create an svg for cricut design space. The shapes are stroke only (transparent fill) using the colour red, except for the letters which are fill only using the colour black (photo 1). Here are my results:

The svg imports into inkscape exactly as it appears in affinity designer 2 for the ipad (photo 2)

The svg appears correctly (stroke red and fill black) in the cricut design space preview window (photo 3) (for both the ipad app and the windows 11 program), but when clicking add to canvas, the shapes appear in the ipad version of cricut design space with a black stroke (photo 4). In the windows 11 version, the shapes appear with a fill of red (photo 5).

I've tried as many combinations as possible that I can think of and still cannot get the svg to appear on the canvas in cricut design space the way it appears in affinity designer 2 for the ipad. Any help would really be appreciated.

Not sure if these settings are relevant but just in case: export svg settings used in the ipad app are flatten transforms on, view box off, rasterize nothing, jpg compression off, and the document is 72dpi with transparent background and rgb8.

Thank you!

[Callum]

Hi Rarast,

As the SVG is appearing correct in other applications and only looks different in Cricut design space you may want to contact them regarding this as it doesn't sound like Affinity is at fault here. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Cricut design space so its difficult for me to advise on this. If you expand the stroke around your design does this issue still occur?

Thanks
C

[Rarast]

Hi, thank you for your reply. I agree it's definitely something in the way cricut design space interprets the file, mainly the stroke colour, as it appears correctly in other software, and cricut design space even previews the file correctly. I just tried using "expand the stroke" as you suggested and that worked, the file appears correctly including the colour. I notice that this changes it from a stroke to a fill (in affinity designer) but that's ok as it appears correctly in cricut design space. I'll try to ask on their forum about settings for importing svgs. Thank you for your help and saving me a lot of time!