[Kde-games-devel] A simple svg optimizer

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> Il Wednesday 19 December 2007 20:45:44 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto:
> Do you think it could be useful to strip the icons too? As I said, for
> compressed icons my program shaves off a 5% of the size.

we discussed this on the artists list probably some 6 months ago, actually =) 
it was decided to this for release tarballs, but not for the icons in svn.

> > something that you could also do that can reduce things significantly is
> > to get reduce the precision of the floating point values. it probably
> > isn't necessary to have all 16 decimal places that inkscape tends to put
> > in there ;) 3 or 4 is probably plenty of sub-pixel perfection. this
> > shaves another 7% or so off the size of the files ime, even more with
> > files with tons of items.
>
> Well, there are only 6 decimals or so, but you are right. Actually I was
> thinking about that too. And maybe colors can be simplified too. At least,
> "#000000;" could be converted to "#000;"

yep. lots of room for optimizing away data that's really only helpful during 
editting.

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