Terrible problem with SVGs on foil cards!

Connie
Honored Contributor

So I have made a lot of foil invitations with complex SVGs, where I set the colors to black and white for the parts I want to either hide or show. It used to work, but now apparently the foil layer turns the whole thing to black???? Is this an intentional change, in which case I'll have to change a ton of invitations, or is it just a technical glitch?

https://www.zazzle.com/dark_moody_floral_burgundy_wedding_elegant_foil_invitation-256433407214441061

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Laura-LiseWong
Contributor III

On your front foil layer, the hexagon I chose to change the fill color to white so that it shows as black now here: https://www.zazzle.com/z/aa2divsn

Right, but then you lose the gold frame around the edge. The frame "looks" gold because on the non-foil layer, I have it set to a gold color, but it's not actually gold foil.

On the original SVG, the border is black and the inside is white, so that the frame will show gold, and the inside won't show at all. For some reason I'm losing that on the foil layer, and it turns the whole thing to one color.

Anyway, thank you for trying to help. I appreciate it.

The outside border has to be changed to black on the foil layer. It is showing as the real gold foil border for me here: https://www.zazzle.com/z/afipsgmd

You can tell it is working when you choose the video viewing and you can see the border shimmering.

That doesn't actually work- since the original SVG has two "parts", it is putting the black border on both parts, so it is basically a double gold frame. It SHOULD just keep the original black and white of the SVG! When I first posted it, that's the way it worked. I never had to actually add a fill and border, because it read the black and white parts of the SVG (as you can see from my posted listing, before you go to edit it). I wish Zazzle would confirm if this is an intentional change, or a technical issue.