Unnecessarily adjusting path and degrading quality
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I have an SVG with no strokes - just a single filled path. After running it through the utility, the path is altered (and almost twice as large) and the quality of the resulting icon is negatively impacted.
Before
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After
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Side-by-side visual comparison (left is original)
Overall this is a great tool! Thank you for building it!
Hi, thanks for the issue.
The svg is twice as large
Yeah, this is a side effect of the package since it has to retrace the svg from scratch. Maybe including SVGO in the future can fix this.
The quality of the resulting icon is negatively impacted
I not sure right now but I think this can be fixed by increasing the tracing resolution, right now its at about ~ 600x600px, increasing this should fix this issue but will result in the svg size being bigger and taking even longer to process.
It also looks like your input svg is already fine and does not need any fixing. Is there a reason to why still want to pass it through the fixer?
Hi, and thank you!
After some more digging I agree that increasing the tracing resolution does help a great deal. I bumped it to 1600x1600 and that was much better. It was a bit slower, though, so maybe an option for higher quality? I can send a PR your way for that.
This SVG probably didn't need any fixing, but it was just one of a large set that had a lot of detail and made a good test. Also the outer circle was clipped or deformed for all that had a circle like that. Many of ours didn't need fixing, but for some reason didn't render correctly when converted to a font. Your tool fixed that for all of them.
Also, I'm passing everything through the tool as part of a build process, which won't know which ones need to be fixed and which don't. We could make it more of a manual process, but I wanted to automate as much as possible.
Also the outer circle was clipped or deformed for all that had a circle like that. Many of ours didn't need fixing, but for some reason didn't render correctly when converted to a font. Your tool fixed that for all of them.
Wow, good to know that it fixed an edge case that I did not have in mind, and im glad it fixed a problem you had with your icon set.
so maybe an option for higher quality?
Yes, a PR for this would be greatly appreciated. What I have in mind is adding a resolution option so the user can have as much control as possible by just passing in the resolution that they want for example in your case it would be something like this
let options = { resolution: 1600 }
SVGFixer('./source', './destination', options);But if you have a better idea that would be welcome too.