Import an SVG
Bring a logo or icon in as editable shapes by pasting or dropping an SVG, and know what gets left out.
An SVG is a vector file, such as a logo or an icon. Import one when you want it as shapes you can recolour and edit, not as a picture.
Bring an SVG in
Use either way.
Paste it
Copy an .svg file, or copy the SVG code as text, then click the canvas and press Cmd/Ctrl+V. Pasting does nothing while you are typing in a field.
Or drop it
Drag an .svg file from your computer onto the canvas. It lands centred on the point where you let go.
The SVG arrives on top of the page as one group, named after the file, and it is selected. A file with a single shape arrives as that one shape. A pasted SVG sits in the middle of the page. It keeps its own size, unless it is larger than 80% of the page, and then it is scaled down to fit that. Groups in the file stay groups.
What comes across
Kept: paths, rectangles, circles, ellipses, lines, polylines, polygons, groups, transforms, solid colours and linear and radial gradients.
Left out: text, images, masks, clip paths, patterns and filters, along with a few rarer elements. When something is left out, a message lists it, for example "Imported, leaving out 1 <text>." If nothing could be imported you see "That SVG has nothing the designer can import."
Before you export the SVG from your vector tool, convert text to outlines and expand any masks or effects into plain shapes. They then come across as shapes.
After you import
- Select a shape and change its colours in Fill and Stroke. Each shape has its own.
- Move and scale the group to move and scale the logo as one. Open it in Layers to pick a single shape. See Group, frame and arrange.
- Double-click a shape to edit its points. See Pen and path editing.
An imported SVG is made of shapes, not an image, so a sheet cannot swap it row by row. If a logo changes per row, add it as an image layer instead. See Add and replace images.
Try it
Drop your brand logo as an SVG onto the sale card. Name the new layer Logo in Layers, and drag it to a corner. Hold Shift and drag a corner handle to resize it without distorting it.
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Updated 1 Nov 2026