Scour Release Notes

July 4th, 2009

• added --keep-editor-data command-line option
• Fix Bug 395645: Keep all identified children inside a defs (Thanks Frederik!)

June 10th, 2009

• Collapse adjacent commands of the same type
• Convert straight curves into line commands
• Eliminate last segment in a polygon
• Rework command-line argument parsing
• Fix bug in embedRasters() caused by new command-line parsing
• added --disable-embed-rasters command-line option

May 19th, 2009

• properly deal with fill="url("#foo")"
• properly handle paths with more than 1 pair of coordinates in the first Move command
• remove font/text styles from shape elements (font-weight, font-size, line-height, etc)
• remove -inkscape-font-specification styles
• added --set-precision argument to set the number of significant digits (defaults to 5 now)
• collapse consecutive h,v coords/segments that go in the same direction

May 17th, 2009

• upgraded enthought's path parser to handle scientific notation in path coordinates
• convert colors to #RRGGBB format
• added option to disable color conversion

April 28th, 2009

• convert gradient stop offsets from percentages to float
• convert gradient stop offsets to integers if possible (0 or 1)
• fix bug in line-to-hv conversion
• handle non-ASCII characters (Unicode)
• remove empty line or curve segments from path
• added option to prevent style-to-xml conversion
• handle compressed svg (svgz) on the input and output
• added total time taken to the report
• Removed XML pretty printing because of this problem.

April 27th, 2009

• Remove path with empty d attributes
• Sanitize path data (remove unnecessary whitespace)
• Convert from absolute to relative path data
• Remove trailing zeroes from path data
• Limit to no more than 6 digits of precision
• Remove empty line segments
• Convert lines to horiz/vertical line segments where possible
• Remove some more default styles (display:none, visibility:visible, overflow:visible, marker:none)

April 25th, 2009

• Fix bug when removing stroke styles
• Remove gradients that are only referenced by one other gradient
• Added option to prevent group collapsing
• Prevent groups with title/desc children from being collapsed
• Remove stroke="none"

April 22nd, 2009

• Remove unnecessary nested <g> elements
• Remove duplicate gradient stops (same offset, stop-color, stop-opacity)
• Always keep fonts inside <defs>, always keep ids on fonts
• made ID stripping optional (disabled by default)

April 15th, 2009

• moved all functionality into a module level function named 'scour' and began adding unit tests
• prevent metadata from being removed if they contain only text nodes
• Remove unreferenced pattern and gradient elements outside of defs
• Removal of extra whitespace, pretty printing of XML

April 13th, 2009

• Prevent error when stroke-width property value has a unit
• Convert width/height into a viewBox where possible
• Convert all referenced rasters into base64 encoded URLs if the files can be found

April 7th, 2009

• Removes unreferenced elements in a <defs>
• Removes all inkscape, sodipodi, adobe elements
• Removes all inkscape, sodipodi, adobe attributes
• Remove all unused namespace declarations on the document element
• Removes any empty <defs>, <metadata>, or <g> elements
• Style fix-ups:
  • Fixes any style properties like this: style="fill: url(#linearGradient1000) rgb(0, 0, 0);"
  • Removes any style property of: opacity: 1;
  • Removes any stroke properties when stroke=none or stroke-opacity=0 or stroke-width=0
  • Removes any fill properties when fill=none or fill-opacity=0
  • Removes all fill/stroke properties when opacity=0
  • Removes any stop-opacity: 1
  • Removes any fill-opacity: 1
  • Removes any stroke-opacity: 1
• Convert style properties into SVG attributes