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Optimizing your Inkscape image |
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In a recent IRC chat Theobroma picked the Inkscape developers brains about
optimizing SVG images within their app. We hope you find these tips
fresh from the devs to be useful.
Vacuum
Defs: Making an object invisible in Inkscape doesn't mean it
is deleted. It's still is in
the document. The same goes for no-longer-used gradients, patterns,
and markers. All these elements remain
for the sake of convienence and can be
reused for new objects. However if you want to optimize your image
before saving it, use the Vacuum Defs command in File menu. It will
remove any gradients,
patterns, or markers which are not used by anything in the
document and will make the final size of the file much smaller.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 July 2005 )
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Vector Icon tips from Inkscape developer Silsor |
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Silsor: The problem with designing vector icons is that unless you
design them just so, the pixel boundaries don't line up quite right
with the vector objects and you get blur.
Theobroma: so how do you "design them just so"? Any suggestions?
Silsor: You set your document to use the "px" unit of measurement, turn
on a pixel grid, and use grid snapping. You also make sure that you
don't use wide strokes, since in SVG graphics, strokes are exactly
centered on the boundary of an object. It's better to either snap the
outer edge of the stroke itself to the grid, or else use an outer
object and an inner object but with no stroke, only fill.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 June 2005 )
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