New Icon Set...[echo]...

Diana Fong dfong at redhat.com
Fri Aug 4 19:44:29 UTC 2006


Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>> Diana Fong wrote:
>>> Maybe someone with .svg skills can help slim down the files.  
>>
>> Is possible to greatly reduce the size even without any svg skills, 
>> here is one example: accessories-calculatorL.svg has 491.5 KB, open 
>> it in Inkscape, select all, copy and paste in a new document, 
>> optionally a little ungrouping and grouping and vacuum defs and the 
>> result is a 52.4KB - 
>> http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/accessories-calculatorL_1.svg
>
> Well, how about 14.4 KB for the same image? I'll say *a lot* better...
> http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/echo/accessories-calculatorL_2.svg
>
> I deleted all buttons except one, grouped the two shapes (white button 
> face and its shadow), used "clone" to create the other buttons, 
> unlinked the clone for the "enter" key, adjusted its shape (bigger 
> height), vacuum defs and saved.
>
> Conclusion: clone usage can be a real file size saver (coupled with 
> vacuuming unused definitions).
>

491.5 -> 52.4 -> 14.4...Awesome Nicu! 

As for the shadow, it's added after, I can't get it to look right in the 
vector file...so it's not lost. 

Will you be uploading this to the wiki?

Thanks...
Diana




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