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.

Breadcrumbs2.svg

[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.