 EDIT: Okay so! I made a claim that Figma embedded a PNG in an SVG and it is possible that what happened was a designer put a raster image into figma and then the engineer who exported this assumed it was built from individual elements. It looks like if you group non-raster elements and export SVG it will give you a zip with a single, non-exploded-into-individual-layers SVG file. My mistake, once again bitten by people not using Figma how Figma wants you to use it 41 comments
  allow me to recommend a piece of software that I am very happy paying $10/year for: Boxy SVG It is the answer to the age old question: what if visually editing SVGs was intuitive and produced absolutely no junk markup (I have no affiliation, this is not me selling something, I just like the software, it's free for most of what you want to do but $10/year for "pro" features)
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@darius @darth_mall While I wonder why the app does not work in Firefox 🤔 the larger question is, why does the support forum, only work in Chromium. It would be good to understand that and file a compact bug on https://webcompat.com @schalkneethling @darth_mall the developer (I believe it is maintained by a single person) says "As of 2022-04 Firefox has less than 4% of the browser market share and therefore supporting it is not worth the effort." Thread here, along with pushback on that number (only viewable on chrome lol): https://boxy-svg.com/questions/376/firefox-not-supported It seems like they just don't want to support more than one rendering engine
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@darth_mall @schalkneethling this developer writes everything from scratch including their forum software. it's one of the reasons Boxy is so performant -- no framework bloat. they ended up writing their forum software inside Boxy itself, probably because as a bit of an "outsider" developer it is easier for them to maintain. frankly I don't blame them for that. @darius @darth_mall 😞 That is so unfortunate and not good for the web ecosystem. Thanks for the additional info, Darius. @darius I have an open ended commitment to make some tshirts for my trivia team! Can boxy help me draw the art for the shirts? @darius excellent, my plan as of eight minutes ago was "inkscape(?)" I have a post-it note doodle I plan to photograph and trace over @isagalaev long thread about that branching off from here with further information https://social.themyceliumnetwork.community/@schalkneethling/110018018827798388 @darius I mean, I'm not telling them what to do. And I've been seeing those arguments for too long now to care. I'm just sad about losing the actual meaning of "the Web" in every such case. @darius there’s no way this is true… usually I don’t export though. I right click on a group and choose Copy as SVG from the context menu and it’s an actual svg @darius I’ll have to check again when I get home later. Maybe they moved things around.  @darius This tip takes some work but produces good results and small SVGs. https://forum.figma.com/t/awesome-tip-about-exporting-to-svg-with-embedded-images/5911 I believe it should be possible to switch the png embedded with a wepp, wich is even smaller, but haven't done the test yet. I have also build animations using rasters within an SVG done with this method.  @darius that explains why at work I recently had to replace an “SVG” with a PNG embedded inside of it. 🤔  @clarfonthey I mean it's one thing if you are trying to make a bitmap into svg... in figma's case you at least have enough information to create a real vector representation!   @darius what the heck, i've never had this happen over...years? is the selection you're trying to export all vector? @whoisgina sooo I think a designer dropped a raster image of a basic shape into figma instead of actually building it. that was how we ended up with a huge image instead of ~50 characters of SVG. edited the original post @darius ohhh okay okay gotcha! yeah ligma can't vectorize some raster thing, but the right move in this case (for all figma engineers reading this!!!) is a prompt to say "heads up, something in your selection is raster, you're gonna get a fucked up SVG!" or just "no sorry, can't, $LAYER is raster" instead of just silently doing something extremely bizarre  |
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@darius I found this out a couple of weeks ago, I was so cross. Just don't offer it if you can't do it!