Copy as SVG doesn't work

[zehfred]

I've been trying to paste some icons from Designer into Figma and they always show up as a raster image. Thought this might be a problem with Figma but after grabbing some SVG raw code and pasting it into Figma, it generates a vector image. I have "Copy items as SVG" selected in my Designer preferences but if I go into a text editor, no code is pasted, hence I don't think it's generating any code on copy. So my question is, how does this work? Is it a bug or am I missing something? I'm running version 1.6.5.135 on Windows 10. Thanks.

 

[firstdefence]

There was a similar post regarding Fontlab and the copy/paste and the assumption that it would paste as a vector into Fontlab but it always pasted as a raster image that had to be traced. Even with Copy as svg enabled it did not work and now your post which is effectively doing the same thing in both action and result confirms something doesn't make sense.

See the post for Fontlab for reference...

 

[zehfred]

So it's not related to other software. Looks like it's a Designer bug then. I'll post this on that thread. Thanks  

[firstdefence]

What I find odd is that Glyphs will interpret the svg copy code and import it in as vector.

[zehfred]

So do Inkscape and Powerpoint. Go figure!

[v_kyr]

4 hours ago, zehfred said:

I have "Copy items as SVG" selected in my Designer preferences but if I go into a text editor, no code is pasted, hence I don't think it's generating any code on copy.

Didn't tried on the Win version, thus can't speak for that one, but on a Mac copy/paste as SVG into a text editor usually works ...

[zehfred]

That's the behavior I was expecting but it's not working, at least not on my version of Designer

[firstdefence]

Good post @v_kyr 

Following on from that, this is the code to compare for this image: Untitled.svg from illustrator and then From Affinity

SVG copy code from Illustrator

<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 23.0.2, SVG Export Plug-In  -->
<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
	 width="1919.39px" height="900.59px" viewBox="0 0 1919.39 900.59" enable-background="new 0 0 1919.39 900.59"
	 xml:space="preserve">
<defs>
</defs>
<g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,-206.686,-177.106)">
	<rect x="206.69" y="188.39" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" fill="#FF7C00" width="882.74" height="882.74"/>
	<g transform="matrix(0.988771,0,0,0.988771,3.49885,-1.3753)">
		<circle fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" fill="#FF7C00" cx="1691.28" cy="635.92" r="455.41"/>
	</g>
</g>
</svg>

SVG copy Code from Affinity

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 383 180" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" xmlns:serif="http://www.serif.com/" style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:1.41421;">
    <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,0,0.000224332)">
        <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,-206.686,-177.106)">
            <rect x="206.686" y="179.357" width="176.089" height="176.089" style="fill:rgb(255,124,0);"/>
        </g>
        <g transform="matrix(0.988771,0,0,0.988771,-203.187,-178.481)">
            <circle cx="501.877" cy="271.353" r="90.845" style="fill:rgb(255,124,0);"/>
        </g>
    </g>
</svg>