Calculate optimal path

[Danny-Engelman]

Your tool is mentioned by SuperTinyIcons which in turn got some attention in Newsletters.

See edent/SuperTinyIcons#504
I used your editor to play with scale and precision, ended up with precision in the viewBox notation:

I wonder, would it be possible to do some calculations in your editor, see a list which scale settings make a smaller minified path.
Maybe even calculate which results overlap very well with the original.

Ever seen such a tool?

[Yqnn]

That would be great, but it's something very advanced and complex to automate.
If we start considering destructive transformations, there are a lot of operations that could be combined:

• changing precision
• changing scale
• relative or absolute commands (M10 10V11 => M10 10v1 )
• scientific notation (1000 => 1e3)
• translations (M1.55 1.55V2.55 => M1 1V2)
• command simplification (l 3 0 => h 3)

Before doing that, there are still some basic, non-destructive optimisations, that are not yet implemented, like this one:
l-1-1l-2-3l-4-5 => l-1-1-2-3-4-5

[Danny-Engelman]

Yes, I do those edits trial and error by hand

Does SVGO recalculate paths?

showing path length

FYI, I hook into your path textarea to display the path length (knowing only GZip size on delivery really counts)

setTimeout(function() {
	let textarea = document.querySelector('[placeholder*="Paste"]');
	let title = textarea.closest("[paneltitle]");
	let span = title.querySelector(".title span")
	
	let update=()=>setTimeout(()=>{
		span.innerText= "Path: "+textarea.value.length + " Bytes";	
	},100);

	document.addEventListener("keyup",update);
	document.addEventListener("click",update);
	console.warn("loaded PathLengthObserver", textarea);
}, 200);

[ace-dent]

Related issue ~

1. Loading the highly optimised github.svg...
2. Toggle Minify Output on/off/on.
3. Minified output is now larger than original. It has added extra c commands, which original skips.

Suggestion:

• If no changes are made, check minified output is actually smaller than input file, otherwise revert to original.
• Avoid inclusion of extra c curve commands when avoidable.

PS- Thanks for sharing this fantastic tool! :-)