Can I export diagrams to an editable SVG format?

Hi ​@PAW,

Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community and for sharing your perspective! I recognize how this would impact your workflow.

Regarding your concerns about data ownership and export formats, I wanted to provide some clarity on how Lucid approaches these requirements:

• Lucid is committed to compliance with the EU Data Act. As a "data processing service provider," we recognize our responsibility to ensure data portability and remove barriers for customers who may choose to switch providers. You can find our official statement and breakdown of these procedures in this Help Center Article.

• Our current SVG export renders text as vector paths to ensure that diagrams appear exactly the same regardless of the fonts installed on a viewer's device. We recognize that this limits direct text editing.

• For structured and machine-readable data, we provide an alternative export that captures the functional content of your diagrams:

  • The CSV of shape data export provides a solution for this by generating a file that includes all shape names and text fields as editable text strings.

  • You can find instructions for these formats here: Export your Lucid Document.

We are very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within this thread. Please first search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request. If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

Hi,

It appears that my response to your original post, along with your original post, have been removed and/or editted. Would you mind explaining why, please?

With regard to the points you’ve made in your last post:

• Our current SVG export renders text as vector paths to ensure that diagrams appear exactly the same regardless of the fonts installed on a viewer's device. We recognize that this limits direct text editing.
  SVGs can utilise web fonts to allow such data to be passed as precisely as in the original diagrams. If your organisation uses such fonts, they would retain control and/or IP over the fonts while still providing pixel-perfect equivalence. Further, text in the documents can then be copied and pasted.

• For structured and machine-readable data, we provide an alternative export that captures the functional content of your diagrams:
  This is not functional equivalence as per the EU/UK definition (https://data-act-law.eu/recital/86/).

  • The CSV of shape data export provides a solution for this by generating a file that includes all shape names and text fields as editable text strings.

Kind regards,

Hi ​@PAW,

Thank you for your response. A few earlier responses were removed to ensure this thread reflects the most accurate and constructive information for everyone. To keep our space helpful for all members, our team occasionally moderates or adjusts posts to ensure they align with our community guidelines. I’m sorry for any confusion or frustration this may have caused. We truly value your perspective and want to make sure the core of your feedback stays front and center in the discussion.

While we don't currently support the specific functionality you're looking for, this level of detail is incredibly helpful for our product team to be aware of as we look toward future improvements. We are committed to continually improving our products based on this level of technical insight. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more specific details about your use case or exactly what you’d like to see from this experience in future updates. We also encourage anyone else interested in this functionality to upvote this post and share their own requirements or desired outcomes within this thread.