SVG Import text issue

[TobyLobster]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to import SVG files into Affinity Designer (v1.10.6), and noticed that some text wasn't centred properly. Here is a simple example that shows the issue.

centre.svg

This looks like a bug, as this SVG file looks OK in browsers etc.

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @TobyLobster

I can confirm that the file looks okay in Firefox and Chrome on Windows, and loads okay in Inkscape.
However it does look wrong in the Affinity applications.

I don’t know if this is a bug or just one or more SVG features that haven’t yet been implemented – e.g. such as dominant-baseline and/or text-anchor, or maybe percentage-based X and Y values.

[Komatös]

In Designer, the text is set using the x/y coordinates. 

For me it looks like that the same language is spoken, but with different dialect. 
 

[TobyLobster]

Hi @GarryP,

Thanks for the Welcome. I've done a little more testing by altering my example above, and it looks like text-anchor is working but both dominant-baseline and percentage-based X and Y values are not working.

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, TobyLobster said:

 I've done a little more testing by altering my example above, and it looks like text-anchor is working but both dominant-baseline and percentage-based X and Y values are not working.

Affinity's SVG parser just supports a limited SVG subset and doesn't take those into account (aka it doesn't know how to deal with those).

[TobyLobster]

2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Affinity's SVG parser just supports a limited SVG subset and doesn't take those into account (aka it doesn't know how to deal with those).

Firstly, is it documented what subset of SVG is supported?

Secondly, is it possible to report this as an issue / request the application is enhanced to support this feature of SVG?

[v_kyr]

28 minutes ago, TobyLobster said:

Firstly, is it documented what subset of SVG is supported?

No.

28 minutes ago, TobyLobster said:

Secondly, is it possible to report this as an issue / request the application is enhanced to support this feature of SVG?

You can try under "under the "Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products" section, but if something will ever happen here then is written in the stars.

[TobyLobster]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

You can try under "under the "Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products" section, but if something will ever happen here then is written in the stars.

Thanks @v_kyr!