Hi,
I am trying to create a custom SF Symbol from an SVG file created with Affinity Designer but, even though my SVG file look perfect in Firefox for example compared to the exported custom.circle.svg file (as recommended in Apple's documentation), I fail to get rid of this error:
"The provided variants are not interpolatable"
My creation process using Affinity Designer is:
Export as SVG file
Duplicate the custom.circle.svg file exported from the SF Symbols app
In the new file, replace the 3 "path" tags in the "g" sections "id="Black-S", "Regular-S", "Ultralight-S" with the paths from the SVG file exported from Affinity designer
Set the 3 transform matrices to "matrix(1 0 0 1 0 0)" for the 3 variants to be generated at the correct location.
Verify in an SVG viewer that the file looks correct.
Import the file via Drag&Drop into the SF Symbols app.
What is wrong with my file?
Thank you in advance for any help,
Marc
mySymbol.svg.txt
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