Mike089123 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I'm using symbols in some art, and I've noticed that on export to SVG, instead of creating a symbol of the shape and using that symbol in all instances, it will just create a new shape for every symbol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike089123 Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 I tried exporting using all the SVG options and still no symbols are being created in the SVG code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 1, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 1, 2017 As you've noted, symbols are not exported as symbols to SVG yet - this will be implemented in the future :) Our symbols allow for individual elements within the symbol to be modified without updating all instances, so it's not quite as simple as saying 'that's a symbol, reuse the existing symbol' as they need to check all attributes of all objects they contain to check they would be identical to a master instance - and as they don't currently do that, we can't risk outputting them as symbols to SVG. We will implement this though... Thanks, Matt Patrick C, Mike089123, F_Kal and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saivan Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Any ETA on this one? This would be a hugely useful feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick C Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Bumping this post as it is something pretty significant that I'm hoping will be in the next release. Was this feature worked in to the beta at all? Quote Illustrator, Designer, 3D Modeller (In that order) - Open for commissions - Check out my art Instagram or follow me on twitter or like my Facebook page. Phew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknmoss Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 (edited) I found this thread as I was looking for this feature as well. It's been over three years since the original post... Would be nice to reduce SVG file sizes with symbols... Bump! Edited February 22, 2020 by rocknmoss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Tindale Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Is it the future yet? If, in a work, I've used a symbol in Designer a few times, and one of those got modified, I'd expect it would be easy to checksum and tell if it is tainted or not (in which case, doesn't export that particular one as SVG symbol whereas the untainted ones do). I'm having to do all the hard work myself re-hand-coding the SVG in large amounts and batches. I'm using a computer here, it'd be good if it could do some of the work! MmmMaarten 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 [edit] hmm... I just reacted with a +1 to give the option to export Affinity Symbols as SVG Symbols because of performance reasons. But my view on the peformance part has changed; Not sure if things are improved in 2021 (guess not as svg isn't changed for many years, but perhaps the web rendering engines for svg have), but according to this old post, using SVG <symbol>s makes the SVG not faster, but even 50% slower in some cases as seen in a test: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8604999/does-reusing-symbols-improve-svg-performance Still think having the option to export Affinity Symbols to SVG Symbols would be a nice addition and very useful in some situations. Especially when a symbol has a lot of graphics inside that will be reused multiple times and not being animated. Than, for use in browsers, it would load a lot faster and doesn't need the peformance part that much. But please, if this will be implemented in the future, make it an option instead of fixed export rule, so Affinity symbols will not always be exported as SVG symbols, but only when we ask for it, because of the above reason! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM0 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 We also need the ability to import SVG symbols. This would massively improve the usefulness of some tools on which I'm working. Over 4 years ago it was stated this is coming. Could really use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barciu Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I could really use SVG symbols as well: both importing and exporting them. CM0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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