lo48576@hard-wi.red
YOSHIOKA Takuma
RazrFalcon/svgcleaner
Purpose
The main purpose of svgcleaner is to losslessly reduce the size of an SVG image, created in a vector editing application, before publishing.
Usually more than half of an SVG image's data is useless for rendering. For example:
Temporary data used by the vector editing application
Non-optimal SVG structure representation
Unused and invisible graphical elements
... Are all unnecessary in a published SVG.
Goals
Correctness - svgcleaner should not break an SVG file
Cleaning ratio - Higher is better
Performance - An average SVG file processing time should be closer to ~1ms on a modern PC
Alternatives
svgo
scour
In addition to the main advantages of svgcleaner — like correctness, cleaning ratio and performance, which are described below — there are some more nuances to be aware of:
svgcleaner cleans only one SVG file. It doesn't process SVGZ files. It doesn't process directories. It doesn't do anything else. Just one task*.
svgcleaner is strictly lossless by default. There are no destructive cleaning options enabled by default.
svgcleaner is portable. You can build it into a single executable without any external dependencies.
* You can get all of these features using the GUI.