Category:SVG simplification by avoidance

Often large parts of the tool-generated coding are just dead filling and can be stripped without any influence on the graphic.

The Inkscape file Bayer pattern with polish descriptions.svg (>208 KB) contains more than 98% mere garbage, useless code. On of many definitions is e.g.

• style="opacity:0.81153845999999985; 17 decimal fractions - but fill-opacity and stroke-opacity is defined later:
• fill:#000000;fill-opacity:0; - it is invisible! (why not 0.00000000000000000 ?)
• stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1.70000005000000010;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:0.01339286; - practically invisible
• stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:7.79999999999999980; an offset (17 fractions) for an invisible none dasharray

The mentioned file had been deleted, but Wikimedia has a lot of other examples for similar Inkscape garbage code.

As another example, the first fill of the rectangle with <path fill="#C31A3E" d="m0,0h126v84H0"/> can be avoided with <circle fill="#C31A3E" r="160"/>.
The radius should be ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {width^{2}+height^{2}}}}$. The mentioned file had been deleted, an example for using this method is shown in F1 yellow flag with red stripes.svg.