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Inkscape is missing there, and it scores perfectly, no precision loss. The only discrepancy (apart from the XML formatting), is the addition of an ID to each ob

Inkscape is missing there, and it scores perfectly, no precision loss. The only discrepancy (apart from the XML formatting), is the addition of an ID to each object, if missing

ungamedplayer 5y ago
I once wrote an inkscape plugin to actually reduce precision. This would shrink the svg filesize quite considerably in some circumstances. This was particularly useful as some of the SVG's were modified by theming large sets of icons to particular branding colors and would take up quite a lot of space.
- makapuf 5y ago
  You can now set precision when exporting to "otimized svg", but maybe its your own plugin?
  - ungamedplayer 4y ago
    Very possible that it went mainline, this would have been around 2010 ish.
danbee 5y ago
Inkscape is great, but it's almost unusably slow on macOS, especially Intel based Macs.
- TOGoS 5y ago
  From my experience, it is slow on every platform. I once wanted to make some vector art illustrations for a book a friend was working on, and ended up doing high-resolution raster graphics in GIMP instead because the vector graphics tools I tried (mainly Inkscape, because it had the best reviews) were either buggy or too painfully slow to use.
  - mkl 5y ago
    It's fast on Linux and Windows for me (no Mac experience), and I use it quite a bit. It does have some annoying limited precision behaviour in GUI input fields though, always (?) rounding to a small number of decimal places. This is problematic when you're doing things like rotating by 1/7 of a turn and need things to line up.
  - syntheweave 5y ago
    There is acknowledgement of slowness from the Inkscape dev team and some optimization efforts are underway, but they most likely won't land until 1.3. If you're comfortable with outline view, that is a good way of speeding things up. However, for drawing it's a lot easier to rely on a raster sketch and then to trace the result in Inkscape either with the fill bucket or using the technical drawing and tweak tools. As of right now my experiences suggest that it's in a state where direct content creation can be really awkward, but it's very good for tracing and finishing images.
blenderdt 5y ago
In Inkscape you can exports an Optimized SVG and set the precision to reduce it and output a smaller file.

Inkscape is missing there, and it scores perfectly, no precision loss. The only discrepancy (apart from the XML formatting), is the addition of an ID to each object, if missing

ungamedplayer 5y ago

I once wrote an inkscape plugin to actually reduce precision. This would shrink the svg filesize quite considerably in some circumstances. This was particularly useful as some of the SVG's were modified by theming large sets of icons to particular branding colors and would take up quite a lot of space.

makapuf 5y ago
You can now set precision when exporting to "otimized svg", but maybe its your own plugin?
- ungamedplayer 4y ago
  Very possible that it went mainline, this would have been around 2010 ish.

danbee 5y ago

Inkscape is great, but it's almost unusably slow on macOS, especially Intel based Macs.

TOGoS 5y ago
From my experience, it is slow on every platform. I once wanted to make some vector art illustrations for a book a friend was working on, and ended up doing high-resolution raster graphics in GIMP instead because the vector graphics tools I tried (mainly Inkscape, because it had the best reviews) were either buggy or too painfully slow to use.
- mkl 5y ago
  It's fast on Linux and Windows for me (no Mac experience), and I use it quite a bit. It does have some annoying limited precision behaviour in GUI input fields though, always (?) rounding to a small number of decimal places. This is problematic when you're doing things like rotating by 1/7 of a turn and need things to line up.
- syntheweave 5y ago
  There is acknowledgement of slowness from the Inkscape dev team and some optimization efforts are underway, but they most likely won't land until 1.3. If you're comfortable with outline view, that is a good way of speeding things up. However, for drawing it's a lot easier to rely on a raster sketch and then to trace the result in Inkscape either with the fill bucket or using the technical drawing and tweak tools. As of right now my experiences suggest that it's in a state where direct content creation can be really awkward, but it's very good for tracing and finishing images.

blenderdt 5y ago

In Inkscape you can exports an Optimized SVG and set the precision to reduce it and output a smaller file.