Symptom

 When importing an SVG image file into BarTender, the text in the image is out of position.

Environment

BarTender 2019 and later.

Solution

BarTender is not an image editor, so when dealing with vector images like SVGs that have a number of different features and settings there may be times when they do not display properly. Our recommendation to address these problems is to ensure that the correct settings are applied in your image software. Make sure that text is grouped and formatted properly (correct spacing, white spaces, indentations, etc).

Manually Altering the SVG File

If it's not possible to edit the SVG in an image editor, you can manually make changes to an SVG file using a text editor.

In the example image below a depreciated xml:space="preserve" attribute is being used. This attribute preserves white space in text objects, which caused some of the text to jump outside the lines. Changing this attribute to xml:space="default" fixed most of the text alignment issues. 

You can also edit the x=and y= values to shift the text in the desired direction.