Not exporting SVG of text converted to Path

LightBurn Software
#1

I was just trying to export an SVG of an LB project to import into another tool. The LB image is comprised of a few simple vectors and some text (created in LB) and converted to a path.

I selected everything and exported to SVG

When I imported the SVG in the other tool I got all the simple vectors, but the text was missing.

I then tried creating a new LB project and importing the newly created SVG into LB. Again I got everything except the text.

Is there an issue with exporting path text to an SVG?

#2

Did you export the text, or did you “Convert to Path” on it first? If you did the latter, it should work just fine. The pending release does fix a few issues, and it’s possible this is one of them.

#3

I created the text in LightBurn and then converted it to a path.
I attached the LRRN file I tried to export as SVG

Morgan - Cutting Board.lbrn (313.0 KB)

#4

It immediately tells me “Can’t find the font ‘Quicker Demo’ on this system”, so I don’t think you did what you think you did. :slight_smile:

If you grouped first, you might have to ungroup to convert to a path.

#5

Quicker Demo is the font I downloaded for the customer.

#6

The text converted to a path perfectly, that was not the issue, The issue was that the converted text path did not export with the rest of the vectors into the SVG file.

#7

I’m trying to tell you that it’s not a path at all, but still grouped text objects:

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Because it’s not auto-converted when exported, it’s just skipped, and that’s why it doesn’t appear in the exported file.

#8

Yes, you are correct. That version of the file contained the raw text, I had not converted it to a path. Sorry for the confusion. In my next version of the file I had converted the text to a path to adjust the character spacing a bit.

I just did the path conversion for that text and it did export to the SVG as expected.

But I am still glad I asked the question, I was not aware that raw text would not be exported into an SVG.

#9

Part of the reason for it is that LightBurn automatically welds the text, and that’s not supported by InkScape. I have code in place to test exporting of proper text, but I still need to get the positioning right. Auto-converting it to paths preserves the welding, but means it’s not editable, so I might make that an option once I have text export working correctly.

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#10

Thanks for your help.

#11