I made a simple border image and exported it to svg for my customer. It is 3" x 2.187" yet when she opens it, it is 33.33" x 24.30"
I THINK that the problem is Cricut doesn't like any units other than pixels. If you export an svg and look in the raw svg text and see width="5.07737in" height="2.66539in" or something, you will notice it is in inches. This I think is were the Design Space software chokes. I don't have a Cricut and can't test. At some point I had the software installed and working just to test for some other people, but have done something to make it not launch now, (I think I disabled some start up service.) I bet if on the CorelDraw export svg screen you changed it to px for pixels, then Design Space would deal with it better. It should look something like width="1523px" height="800px" in the svg file.
Thank you David! I will try that - BTW I see you have selected svg 1.1 I just went with svg - what's the difference? Also since you are so nice and willing to help :-) another iss ue I get is it tells me I have an invalid ID
That is just the default. SVG is a specification controlled by the W3C, (World Wide Web Consortium.) Version 1.1 is the current standard. I wish 2.0 would come out. https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
you rock! thanks :-)
Did changing it to pixels work?
It sort of worked, I imported my 3 inch svg into a new document set up in pixels and made the backgrond page a small area then exported to svg1.1 Customer says now it comes into cicut design space as 12 inches instead of 33 inches so its better but not correct. At least she can open it since it seems to be limited to her workspace or mat on her machine. Unfortunately it has 5 layers and she is a newbie. I have been selling these designs on Etsy and no one has ever had an issue like this with any of my other files to my knowledge - it freaks me out to think it might be something I'm doing wrong in the creation of the files. I'd hate to jeopardize my 5 star rating on there - I am an embroiderer/digitizer and the vector graphics is a sweet add on for residual income. WOW - long story :-)
OK - I got it, I made the page background the just a bit bigger than the image and now it works - that was a learning experience, thanks for your help, I couldn't have solved it without your advice!
Geniebeanie said:I made the page background the just a bit bigger than the image and now it works
Would you be interested in trying a VBA macro that fits the page size to selected objects? A margin can be specified.