SVG import looks terrible (unreadable)

[Jens Petter]

I exported this from Lucidchart.

It opens correctly in MS Edge, Inkscape, Chrome and Firefox. As well as on online converter i tried SVG to PNG (svgconverter.com). Which exported correctly to PNG.

So far the only program that can't open it correctly is Affinity Designer, which I have paid for (twice, v1 and v2).

I've even tried to export from Inkscape into two different versions, "plain SVG" and "Inkscape SVG" whatever that is.

I verify that this is my original "artwork" or whatever, that I made with Lucidchart.

I did try a suggestion of opening w. browser, export as PDF and import that into AD, which works, except for PDF splits my doc into pages. And that I expect to be able to import without this workaround.

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[bbrother]

Yo could try export to pdf directly from Licidchart and see if the results will be satisfactory for you.
But I agree with you AD is the only program that has so many problems with correctly opening various svg files

It's all because AD has a poor SVG parser:

• that does not support many SVG properties
• it does not work well with svg files that use other measurement units than pixels,
• adds unnecessary elements during export, etc.

I think, that there is a problem how AD interprets the transform and translate attributes from the letters A,B,C,D,E, and X that where generated by lucidchart.
But i cant figure out whats the casue. Perhaps more experienced users with more knowledge of the svg format could say more.

You added a sample of the svg file and I'm sure the moderator will pass it on to the devs so they can investigate and improve support for svg files.

[David in Яuislip]

Here's a pdf exported from  Inkscape 1.3 (0e150ed6c4, 2023-07-21), seems to open ok in Publisher V1

Breadcrumbs2-ink.pdf

[Jens Petter]

Thanks for your replies. I’ll just use Inkscape until Affinity fixes this. 
It’s meant as a bug report  

The PDF workaround is OK as long as the “paper” is normal size I guess. 

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report & file provided @Jens Petter!

I can confirm I've replicated this issue here and logged it with our development team, to help improve our SVG importer in a future update.

Hopefully the aforementioned options above allow you to workaround this issue, our apologies for any inconveniences caused due to this in the meantime. 

[Martyn Folkes]

I have come across the same problem. 

When I opened an svg in Inkscape I got this:

But when I opened it in Designer, I got this:

As you can see, in Designer all the text is bunched up in one place. It is all in the layers panel as separate layers for each chunk of text. 

 

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[David in Яuislip]

Affinity can't cope with % dimensions, save it as a pdf from Inkscape, it looks ok

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[Hangman]

Hi @Martyn Folkes,

What was the creation software for the flowchart, I ask because the exported SVG is a complete mess with hundreds of unnecessary curves...

If there is an option to export directly to PDF from the software used to create the flowchart you will likely get much better results when opening the file in Affinity apps. SVG support in Affinity apps is not great lacking many features such as Unit, CSS and CSS Blend Mode support, all features that have been requested many times over the years...

Hopefully, this is one area in which we will eventually see some improvements moving forward... SVG is a very valid format but is unfortunately poorly supported at the current time across the Affinity apps...

[Martyn Folkes]

Hi @Hangman,

I used vectorizer.io to trace a poor quality image. I don't think it was the fault of vectorizer.io that the SVG is a complete mess.

[Hangman]

1 minute ago, Martyn Folkes said:

I used vectorizer.io to trace a poor quality image. I don't think it was the fault of vectorizer.io that the SVG is a complete mess.

Hi @Martyn Folkes,

That makes sense, vectorizer.io is great with solid colours but doesn't handle anything with any element of a graduation very well and I'm guessing the source image was a low-ish resolution raster file?

You might be better off just recreating it in Designer...

[Martyn Folkes]

1 minute ago, Hangman said:

You might be better off just recreating it in Designer...

That's exactly what I did. I was trying to avoid doing that because I wasn't too familiar with Designer, but it was a good learning experience and didn't take as long as I expected. It would probably have saved a lot of time if I had gone the Designer route in the first place.