Thank you for the advice, I am guessing it could be masks that it doesn't like, I'll have a play and see thanks alot

ooo ok, it could well be a case that the ubuntu viewer doesn't support it, it was just for an icon and I guess that the image viewer only views what gnome can view which might explain the difference as you said if they dont both support the svg format

Thanks for your help

the ubuntu image viewer

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