Export SVG with merged layers

[HydroJLW]

Hi,

Apologies if this is simple...I can't find the best settings to do this - How can you export a SVG but with all objects/curves merged into one layer?

Thank you,

Jack

[v_kyr]

You would need to add all curves first together and then export the resulting layer as an SVG. But it should be clear to you that when you geom add all curves together that they will be all the same color (stroke/fill) here.

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[HydroJLW]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

You would need to add all curves first together and then export the resulting layer as an SVG. But it should be clear to you that when you geom add all curves together that they will be all the same color (stroke/fill) here.

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Thank you!

Do you have any idea why when an SVG is exported and objects/text etc is converted to curves, the alignment changes?

It is very frustrating. Everything is aligned to the centre and then after exporting things are slightly off-centre.

Cheers

[v_kyr]

4 minutes ago, HydroJLW said:

Do you have any idea why when an SVG is exported and objects/text etc is converted to curves, the alignment changes?

It is very frustrating. Everything is aligned to the centre and then after exporting things are slightly off-centre.

That normaly shouldn't be the case, you may want to show a recorded screencast of the app how that happens.

[walt.farrell]

It might also be useful to provide a sample Affinity document (.afdesign, for example) that has this problem when you export to SVG, along with the SVG exported from it.

[HydroJLW]

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to these messages - I found that the error with the alignment was occurring with the 'export text as curves...' option on. I ended up just turning this off, and things seem to be ok with the exported svg files now 👍 The text is still converted to curves, but without the alignment issues from before.

Thanks for your help/input.

Jack

[HydroJLW]

On 10/5/2023 at 9:32 PM, HydroJLW said:

Thank you!

Do you have any idea why when an SVG is exported and objects/text etc is converted to curves, the alignment changes?

It is very frustrating. Everything is aligned to the centre and then after exporting things are slightly off-centre.

Cheers

Hi again,

Ok, I am still facing issues, unfortunately!

Does anyone know why the text is centred correctly as a shape text path, but then is not aligned to the centre when converted to curves?! Which is the correct alignment...surely it should be the same?

Thanks,

Jack

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, HydroJLW said:

why the text is centred correctly as a shape text path, but then is not aligned to the centre when converted to curves?! Which is the correct alignment...surely it should be the same?

That does seem odd, but I think it's OK. Notice that the L is still aligned to the Guide that runs through it in the same way in both screenshots. So it appears that the bounding box is in a slightly different position, which should be because the box in the first screenshot is for the ellipse, and the bounding box in the second one is only for the word itself.

And you can see from the first screenshot that the word is not centered on the ellipse. Here's the first screenshot with 2 Guides added. Compare the length of the red line on the left (left side of bounding box to letter E) with the length of the red line on the right (right side of bounding box to the letter D).

[HydroJLW]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

That does seem odd, but I think it's OK. Notice that the L is still aligned to the Guide that runs through it in the same way in both screenshots. So it appears that the bounding box is in a slightly different position, which should be because the box in the first screenshot is for the ellipse, and the bounding box in the second one is only for the word itself.

And you can see from the first screenshot that the word is not centered on the ellipse. Here's the first screenshot with 2 Guides added. Compare the length of the red line on the left (left side of bounding box to letter E) with the length of the red line on the right (right side of bounding box to the letter D).

Thanks for the reply, Walt - much appreciated!

So, with this in mind, do you think that the best thing would be to convert to curves and then align to centre afterwards? It is strange because even before converting to curves, the text seems out of alignment somewhat, despite the handles both being aligned to the centre...you can see the uneven spacing in the attached image.

Thanks,

Jack

[v_kyr]

First left side "E" looks to be bigger/greater in size here.

56 minutes ago, HydroJLW said:

do you think that the best thing would be to convert to curves and then align to centre afterwards?

Sounds to make sense here.

[HydroJLW]

26 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

First left side "E" looks to be bigger/greater in size here.

Sounds to make sense here.

Thank you for the reply, @v_kyr - yes I just noticed this too, so I am thinking I may play around with setting to ALL CAPS or SMALL CAPS to see if this helps balance the bounding box/alignment better...I hope so, as this is doing my head in haha

[HydroJLW]

38 minutes ago, HydroJLW said:

Thank you for the reply, @v_kyr - yes I just noticed this too, so I am thinking I may play around with setting to ALL CAPS or SMALL CAPS to see if this helps balance the bounding box/alignment better...I hope so, as this is doing my head in haha

This helped a little - so I am led to believe that the issue is probably being caused by the font itself. I thought a decent workaround would be to create a circle with no stroke/fill to go around the whole logo so that everything remains aligned and the outer circle can be aligned to the centre etc without messing things up.

Jack