SVG Export in Affinity Designer 2.5.7 Does Not Convert Shapes to Curves

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Description:
When exporting a drawing as an SVG in Affinity Designer 2.5.7 on Windows 11, previously converted shapes (ellipse and rectangle) do not retain their curve transformations. Instead, they remain as their original shapes in the exported file.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open Affinity Designer 2.5.7 on Windows 11.
2. Create a new artboard.
3. Draw an ellipse and a rectangle.
4. Convert both shapes to curves (using "Convert to Curves").
5. Export the file as an SVG.
6. Open the exported SVG in Editor.

Expected Behavior:
The exported SVG file should contain the ellipse and rectangle as actual paths/curves since they were converted before export.

Actual Behavior:
The shapes remain as their original ellipse and rectangle instead of being saved as curves in the exported SVG file.

Screenshots:

Device & Environment:

• Operating System: Windows 11
• Software Version: Affinity Designer 2.5.7

Additional Information:

• Export settings
  

[NathanC]

Welcome to the forums @False,

I've logged this with the developers for review and further investigation. If you add an extra node to the curve path this will treat the object as a path.

Not to say it's the correct behaviour, but while looking into this comparatively exporting from AI does not convert expanded shapes to paths in the SVG XML.

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Thank you for the workaround, which helps me complete my exports for now.

However, once I have converted a shape to a curve in the program, the export should not override this decision and should export the curve/points as intended.

[i5963c]

I'm facing the same issue with Affinity Designer 2.6.

Next to circles (or ellipses), also rectangles are apparently not processed as curves when exporting to SVG.

Remark #1: the problem exists also with Affinity Photo 2.6 and Affinity Publisher 2.6. But the 3 programs likely share the same code for the SVG export funtionality, so this may be 'expected'. Nevertheless, it's obviously a bug in all Affinity apps. I have no idea about the situation on iPad, as I don't have or use one.

Remark #2: on an older, 'obsolete' PC, I still have installed a version 1.10 of the Affinity suite. I did a quick check with these versions, and they expose the same faulty behaviour. Thus, this seems to be an old bug.

Thanks to get it fixed. I use other software that relies on the SVG format, and that expects curves/paths as input, so ellipses/circles are lost in the transition from Affinity to the third party SW. The workaround that is suggested above, may work for simple drawings, but is extremely annoying (actually unworkable) with files that contain hundreds (or thousands) of rectangles, circles and/or ellipses.