Issues importing R plots in SVG format

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Hello!

I’m trying to drag-and-drop an SVG plot into Figma

But the result is this:

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The file renders wonderfully well in Inkscape and a web browser.

This makes Figma really hard to use in our case.

How can this be fixed?

2

It seems Figma is closing the paths, then filling them with black, and ignoring stroke colors.

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The paths are not closed in the original SVG.

3

The issue can be circumvented by:

  • Opening the R SVG plot in Inkscape,
  • For preserving text as text:
    • ungroup all elements (using “Ctrl+Shift+G”)
    • select a text element and select same object type (Edit → Select Same → Object Type, or “Alt+Shift+A”)
    • invert the selection (using Edit → Object to path or “!”),
  • Convert selected objects to paths (using Path → Object to path, or "Ctr+Shift+C).

Having to do this for each plot is really annoying :confused: it would be nice if it just worked…

5

You can use ggsave with device=svg (Note, not device=“svg”)