Editing SVG Files in Publisher (Desktop)

[kdog3682]

Is there a way to edit the content of a SVG file within affinity?

The main goal of this post is to expediate the workflow of:

1. Create a SVG File

2. Export it as SVG.

3. Open it as a text file.

4. Make modifications.

5. Copy and paste resultant to a HTML web page I'm working on.

Ideally, the workflow would be

1. Doing work on Affinity

2. Open up the "text content" of the SVG while working in Affinity.

3. Make changes to the text and directly copy and paste to somewhere else. 

 

 

[Joachim_L]

I think Publisher was never meant for this kind of use. Affinity Designer should be the better place, but I doubt this since this is a very special workflow. Illustrator shows the code on export, perhaps Inkscape has the wanted feature?

[fde101]

You would need to have a very specialized type of SVG editor to expect functionality like that.

[v_kyr]

Something in behavior like this?

Even that would be easy to do, it's not very powerful in terms of any further editing capabilities here. Meaning, every half way good programmers text editor offers much better and more powerful capabilities for editing generated SVG text code. - However, the good here on such a webbrowser based solution is more, that you can reapply the manual edits (let reparse) and inspect the result immediately.

[christine westhead]

Hi,

It is possible in Affinity Designer. 

Place the image, use the edit image button on the tool bar. Find the image in the layers panel and  click the little triangle to open all the parts. 

Click on one of the parts, click control A to select them all and group them again.

That should do it.

[Komatös]

Have you set the two Clipboard options in the General settings? If not do tick them on.

If you now copy an object, it stays as svg in the clipboard and you can paste it to any text editor/web editor as plain text.

This works in all three Affinity programme. And, if you make changes with an text editor and copy the whole plain text again, you can paste that back as vector object to te Affinity Apps