I’m trying to convert my SVG into an embroidery pattern. Just one “fill to satin” pattern. I’ve got Inkscape with the Ink/Stitch extension. Problem: my SVG crashes Inkscape every time I try to get it to process the rungs. Does anyone have experience doing this? If so, can you please look at my attached SVG and let me know if there’s any lines that just look wrong that might be the cause of the crash?
This is an SVG:
Does anyone else have a non-Inkscape program that could convert my SVG into a PES file?
I now suspect nothing will help. I tried doing just one character (the S, which is simplest), and it rendered correctly but still crashed with the same stack trace. That suggests that the conversion part is working just fine, and it’s something innate to the tool regardless of input. sigh Yes, I have reported the bug to Inkscape, but I was hoping to find a resolution here.
Have you gone to ChatGPT and asked something like this: “How would I convert an SVG file to a PES stitching pattern?” If not, you might find that it points you in a direction that can help.
You can also upload your file to it and have it analyze it for issues.
I am well aware of the tools available.
Claude didn’t see anything wrong with my file, so I figured I’d ask human beings who might be an expert and maybe see something the AI missed – likely since it isn’t trained in this specifically. The tools are broken because Inkscape 1.4.3 updated its rules for plugins and the plugins aren’t updated, but downloading older versions is proving difficult. PE-DESIGN is $1200 and only available if you buy it physically at a store, all of which in Austin are closed on Sundays.
I did not lightly ask for help here.
At the moment, I am working on a software patch to the inkscape extension, but I lack their full build context, so I’m at the mercy of regular Ink/Stitch developers to vet the patch and pull it into a release.
Recently we’ve change Discourse to allow SVG files to be attached. Maybe someone can aid you if you upload it here.
My SVG is in my first post. 
(They render as image, but it’s an SVG.) If anyone can help, I’d appreciate it. I’m willing to send some small $ to someone for converting to PES.
The crash affects all Mac silicon releases of Inkscape. So finding older versions doesn’t help me. I did send a pull request to the maintainers with a fix. Alas, I’m not able to build the full tool chain, so I can’t just fix my own setup today. 
If the maintainers pull my changes into a future release, I’ll update here.
This worked for me, but I think didn’t produce the output you’d hoped for. Here’s the PES https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjuMnAO9eWi6Uxq3NzoZBSDCc-4lUa94/view?usp=sharing
And the simulator preview.
I’m using Inkscape 1.4.2 and Ink/Stitch 3.2.2 on an M4 MBP running Sequoia 15.7.3 (24G419)
Thanks, aneel.
I have just now finally managed to convert it without crashing – and get all the letters right. I had to convert the and tags in the SVG into tags. Theoretically those are identical structures in memory, but not in practice.
