# Scour Release Notes

Copyright 2009, Jeff Schiller

## Version 0.19

Aug 9th, 2009

- Fix XML serialization bug: xmlns:XXX prefixes not preserved when not in default namespace
- Fix XML serialization bug: remapping to default namespace was not actually removing the old prefix

## Version 0.18

Aug 9th, 2009

- Remove attributes of gradients if they contain default values
- Reduce bezier/quadratic (c/q) segments to their shorthand equivalents (s/t)
- Move to a custom XML serialization such that id/xml:id is printed first (Thanks to Richard Hutch for the suggestion)
- Added --indent option to specify indentation type (default='space', other options: 'none', 'tab')

## Version 0.17

Aug 3rd, 2009

- Only convert to #RRGGBB format if the color name will actually be shorter
- Remove duplicate gradients
- Remove empty q,a path segments
- Scour polyline coordinates just like path/polygon
- Scour lengths from most attributes
- Remove redundant SVG namespace declarations and prefixes

## Version 0.16

July 30th, 2009

- Fix Bug 401628: Keep namespace declarations when using --keep-editor-data (Thanks YoNoSoyTu!)
- Remove trailing zeros after decimal places for all path coordinates
- Use scientific notation in path coordinates if that representation is shorter
- Scour polygon coordinates just like path coordinates
- Add XML prolog to scour output to ensure valid XML, added --strip-xml-prolog option

## Version 0.15

July 5th, 2009

- added --keep-editor-data command-line option
- Fix Bug 395645: Keep all identified children inside a defs (Thanks Frederik!)
- Fix Bug 395647: Do not remove closepath (Z) path segments

## Version 0.14

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

## Version 0.13

May 19th, 2009

- properly deal with fill="url(&quot;#foo&quot;)"
- 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

## Version 0.12

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

## Version 0.11

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.

## Version 0.10

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)

## Version 0.09

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"

## Version 0.08

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)

## Version 0.07

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

## Version 0.06

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

## Version 0.05 and earlier

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