Cannot open svg

[algo]

Affinity Designer 2.1.1 cannot open a svg if the file is encoded in ASCII. When I change the encoding to UTF-8, then it works just fine:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii" standalone="no"?>
<svg
   version="1.1"
...
     
=>
  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg
   version="1.1"
...

 

Is there a reason why Affinity doesn't support ASCII (Inkscape does).

[GarryP]

If you search the forums for svg ascii you will see lots of information about this and ways to get around it.

In brief, encoding="ascii" is not something that the Affinity applications can handle at the moment but changes for it to do so have been requested; there’s no particular reason for it not being supported, it’s just that support for it has not yet been added.

Serif don’t generally give us timescales for any changes – you can keep an eye on the beta forum sections for any possible future functionality updates.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @algo!

I can confirm this is logged with our team to be supported in a future version, so I'll be sure to add your 'vote' to this now in our internal development log.

I hope this helps

[algo]

@Dan C Thanks for logging my vote!