Timeline for Can I convert SVG text to path but reuse glyphs?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 3, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | JohnB | I messed around in Illustrator a bit; its SVG output does respect Symbols . Here's a quick example. It would take quite a bit of effort, but you might be able to create an Illustrator script that will break apart your text into individual characters and replace them with Symbols. The biggest hurdle I see would be dealing with rotation. If all text is parallel with the X axis it doesn't seem to difficult, but dealing with text on an angle might be a challenge. Of course, all that isn't very helpful if you don't have Illustrator available | |
| Nov 3, 2016 at 13:24 | comment | added | JohnB | @Oli right, hence my careful choice of the word "optimize" :) That's a bummer that your file is already Scoured though...ack! | |
| Nov 3, 2016 at 11:50 | comment | added | Oli |
I should have said, the scouring part of scour doesn't compress. It can also throw the file through gzip for you but the ID and whitespace minification stuff is its main gig.
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| Nov 2, 2016 at 21:55 | comment | added | Oli | Scouring doesn't compress, it just removes junk and while it does do a fair amount of good for me (given the huge number of objects), my "4MB" was post-scour. Compressed content would be great but —and I should have mentioned this earlier— I have to inline the SVG for browser targeting issues (and also frontend manipulation requirements). I know, I know, it's painful but trust me when I say it's hurting me more at the moment D: | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 16:05 | history | answered | JohnB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |