Question: How can we convert multiple paths of following svg file into a single path?
I have been trying to convert multiple paths of the following svg file into a single path. I tried the following steps in InkSCape but the converted file still look almost the same with multiple paths:
- Path-->Object to Path
- Object-->Ungroup
- Path-->Combine
InkScape's Save as Optimized SVG (*.svg) also did not convert it into a single path.
I also tried many online tools (such as the following) for this task. But all of them have only been able to remove the empty paths, and they have converted all other non-empty paths (there are 5 of them) into 3 paths:
https://www.ofoct.com/image-converter/svg-optimizer.html
https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/
http://petercollingridge.appspot.com/svg-optimiser
https://github.com/svg/svgo
Remark: I do not have any commercial software. I would be interested in open source or free online tool that can do the job. Or if someone can explain the correct steps to perform the task that would also be suffice.
MySVGFile.svg:
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xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
width="210mm"
height="297mm"
viewBox="0 0 210 297"
version="1.1"
id="svg943"
sodipodi:docname="Sqrt_test.svg"
inkscape:version="1.0.1 (3bc2e813f5, 2020-09-07)">
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id="defs937" />
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id="base"
pagecolor="#ffffff"
bordercolor="#666666"
borderopacity="1.0"
inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
inkscape:pageshadow="2"
inkscape:zoom="0.35"
inkscape:cx="400"
inkscape:cy="560"
inkscape:document-units="mm"
inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
inkscape:document-rotation="0"
showgrid="false"
inkscape:window-width="1267"
inkscape:window-height="728"
inkscape:window-x="52"
inkscape:window-y="0"
inkscape:window-maximized="0" />
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id="metadata940">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
<dc:title></dc:title>
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id="layer1">
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transform="matrix(0.352778 0 0 0.352778 103.494 146.408)"
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ns7:texconverter="pdflatex"
ns7:pdfconverter="inkscape"
ns7:text="\\[\\sqrt{x}\\]"
ns7:preamble="C:\Users\RazLT3user\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions\textext\default_packages.tex"
ns7:scale="1.0"
ns7:alignment="middle center"
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