Export text as SVG and keep all the meta data

[chris.bannu]

Hi guys,

I'm using Affinity with Adobe XD, some clients refuse to work with Affinity, since no one knows what it is. I do convert some client to Affinity, but others dismiss it, so I have to either provide Photoshop, XD or Sketch files. XD is the fastest approach, because I can export the shapes to Photoshop and open them directly with XD, and I can export text to SVG and import it in XD. All cool, but the SVG text I export from Affinity loses all its meta, except for font. font size and color. Alignment is gone, character spacing is gone, line height (which is really important) is also missing.

 

Is there a way to export text to SVG and keep all the meta intact?

Thank you,

Chris

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, chris.bannu said:

Is there a way to export text to SVG and keep all the meta intact?

Well it always also highly depends here on what the SVG spec itself does support as attributes for it's text element. - See for example the supported attributes of a SVG text element:

• SVG <text> element
• SVG 1.1 Text
• SVG 2 Text

Another point is also how a certain software then converts/generates the SVG output here (SVG 1.1, SVG 2 etc.), meaning here that not all possible typografic features of a graphics software do then always have 1:1 aquivalent related counterpart in SVG terminology and thus a bunch of software might in such cases then instead only generate curves/paths as SVG output at all.

[chris.bannu]

thanks v_kyr, didn't know that some attributes weren't supported.