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mergin text layers

Asked by Rajendra Y Nadkar

In a .svg file, we have many text layers. We want to merge similar layers so hopefully the file will become compact

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Mc (mc...) said : 		#1

"Layers" in svg are just groups, so it won't help you by more than a few bytes . What is expensive in term of disk space is usually :
- embedded bitmaps (that you can link to decrease size)
- paths with many nodes (that you can simplify)

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Rajendra Y Nadkar (rajendra-nadkar) said : 		#2

Appreciate your help. You have suggested paths with many nodes can be simplified. Can you spare some time to elaborate this ? Thanks in anticipation.

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Mc (mc...) said : 		#3

Paths with many nodes can sometimes be simplified by removing nodes while keeping roughly the same shape (if, for instance, you have a rectangle with 400 nodes, you can remove 396 useless ones).

You can do it manually (by redrawing paths that you want to simplify, which i usually do instead of vectorizing simple bitmaps, for instance),
or automatically from a path with a builtin tool [Ctrl+L] (See http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Editing.html#Paths-Misc )

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