Using SVGO options

[DavidOliver]

I'd like to have the output XML pretty printed by using SVGO's pretty option. Is it currently possible to do that with gulp-svgmin?

I see that plugins can be disabled but I haven't found anything for SVGO options.

[ben-eb]

Hi @DavidOliver,

No, it's not currently possible. The options object is constructed from the array of plugins to be enabled/disabled, so at the moment no other option is passed through to SVGO. However, I didn't consider this use case so I'm open to changing the API for gulp-svgmin to support it. Should be a simple fix. 😄

[DavidOliver]

Hi @ben-eb,

Oh, that would be great - thanks!

[ben-eb]

Published the change as 1.0.0 on npm. For the pretty option to work, you'll need to do this:

var svgmin = require('gulp-svgmin');

gulp.task('pretty', function() {
    return gulp.src('test.svg')
        .pipe(svgmin({
            js2svg: {
                pretty: true
            }
        }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('out'))
});

Thanks for the heads up! 😃

[DavidOliver]

Wow, that was quick. Thanks again!

It's working, though it's not quite as pretty as I was expecting, with line breaks that I would expect missing. But I believe that's entirely an SVGO thing. It's much better to have some line breaks than none in my case. :-)

Congratulations on your 1.0.0 release.

[ben-eb]

Thanks! Yeah, will be a SVGO thing; open an issue upstream if you have any problems with it. 😄