TobyLobster Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Hi, Love Affinity Designer. This is an issue when importing SVG files. In SVG, a common method for centreing text in a box is to use percentage values for X and Y attributes of the <text> element. The same method also uses the "dominant-baseline" attribute. See the small enclosed example to show the technique. It is unfortunate that SVGs that use these attributes do not currently import into AD correctly (but do import into browsers and Inkscape correctly). The text is not centred in the box at all. centre.svg It would be a useful enhancement to support these attributes. Perhaps this one could be quick/fairly easy to resolve, knocking another issue off the list? PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJoh Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 I second this request. All text in figures generated in matplotlib and saved as .svg collapses on top of the first letter. Editing/compiling figures exported from matplotlib is my main use case, I'm still in the free trial period and can't consider buying with this bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amphioxus Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 This SVG import bug has been bugging me for years. I'm also producing a lot of figures using Matplotlib, and always have to resort to using the cairo backend for creating svg files that import correctly into Affinity. Hopefully this will be fixed at some point, because it's really annoying... Here are some posts from 2021 that describe the problem: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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