dave moult Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 HI, I'm trying to export a text image from affinity in a SVG format to open in sign cut pro. When I open the file in sign cut the image is blank. I have tried saving the file as PS and SVG but neither work. Any ides would be awesome Cheers Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted February 14, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2018 Hi dave moult, Welcome to the forum, The Sign Cut software is designed to only work with vector only images, in the SVG export option screen please enable the Text as Curves option and under Rasterise set this to Nothing and this will create a SVG with no raster objects and hopefully the Sign Cut software may open this file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave moult Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 HI DWright, Thanks for the reply. Didn't work. it only displays a blank document not the design? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 14, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2018 Hi dave moult, Welcome to Affinity Forums Is the "text" in Affinity Designer a text object or an image? Check the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel - does it say pixel, image or text (or other thing like curve)? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave moult Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 Hi MEB, Pixel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave moult Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 can I use affinity direct with a plotter? that would save me a lot of problems?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 14, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2018 Ok, thank you. Since the text is actually an image - not an actual text object you can edit or text converted to (vector) shapes - you can't export it as vectors for the sign cut software. It must be recreated as text first before exporting to SVG (or other vector format). If you have the font used on that image installed on your system, select it a use the text tools to recreate the text from scratch (as a text object) so it matches the image. If you don't have the font or a way to get it, you have to recreate the text as vector shapes using the Pen Tool to draw each letter one by one or alternatively use a third party tracing software (like Super Vectorizer, Image Vectorizer, Vector Magic etc) or web service (like https://vectormagic.com) to convert the image into vectors then adjust/clean the resulting shapes as needed. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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