` elements) * `--remove-descriptions` (removes `<desc>` elements) * `--remove-descriptive-elements` (removes all of the descriptive elements, i.e. `<title>`, `<desc>` and `<metadata>`) * Fix removal rules for the `overflow` attribute. ([#104](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/104)) * Improvement: Automatically order all attributes ([#105](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/105)), as well as `style` declarations ([#107](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/107)) allowing for a constant output across multiple runs of Scour. Before order could change arbitrarily. * Improve path scouring. ([#108](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/108))<br>Notably Scour performs all caculations with enhanced precision now, guaranteeing maximum accuracy when optimizing path data. Numerical precision is reduced as a last step of the optimization according to the `--precision` option. * Fix replacement of removed duplicate gradients if the `fill`/`stroke` properties contained a fallback. ([#109](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/109)) * Fix conversion of cubic Bézier "curveto" commands into "shorthand/smooth curveto" commands. ([#110](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/110)) * Fix some issues due to removal of properties without considering inheritance rules. ([#111](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/111)) ## Version 0.34 (2016-07-25) * Add a function to sanitize an arbitrary Python object containing options for Scour as attributes (usage: `Scour.sanitizeOptions(options)`).<br>This simplifies usage of the Scour module by other scripts while avoiding any compatibility issues that might arise when options are added/removed/renamed in Scour. ([#44](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/44)) * Input/output file can now be specified as positional arguments (e.g. `scour input.svg output.svg`). ([#46](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/46)) * Improve `--help` output by intuitively arranging options in groups. ([#46](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/46)) * Add option `--error-on-flowtext` to raise an exception whenever a non-standard `<flowText>` element is found (which is only supported in Inkscape). If this option is not specified a warning will be shown. ([#53](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/53)) * Automate tests with continouous integration via Travis. ([#52](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/52)) ## Version 0.33 (2016-01-29) * Add support for removal of editor data of Sketch. ([#37](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/37)) * Add option `--verbose` (or `-v`) to show detailed statistics after running Scour. By default only a single line containing the most important information is output now. ## Version 0.32 (2015-12-10) * Add functionality to remove unused XML namespace declarations from the `<svg>` root element. ([#14](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/14)) * Restore unittests which were lost during move to GitHub. ([#24](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/24)) * Fix a potential regex matching issue in `points` attribute of `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` elements. ([#24](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/24)) * Fix a crash with `points` attribute of `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` starting with a negative number. ([#24](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/24)) * Fix encoding issues when input file contained unicode characters. ([#27](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/27)) * Fix encoding issues when using `stding`/`stdout` as input/output. ([#27](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/27)) * Fix removal of comments. If a node contained multiple comments usually not all of them were removed. ([#28](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/28)) ## Version 0.31 (2015-11-16) * Ensure Python 3 compatibility. ([#8](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/8)) * Add option `--nindent` to set the number of spaces/tabs used for indentation (defaults to 1). ([#13](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/13)) * Add option `--no-line-breaks` to suppress output of line breaks and indentation altogether. ([#13](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/13)) * Add option `--strip-xml-space` which removes the specification of `xml:space="preserve"` on the `<svg>` root element which would otherwise disallow Scour to make any whitespace changes in output. ([#13](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/13)) ## Version 0.30 (2014-08-05) * Fix ingoring of additional args when invoked from scons. ## Version 0.29 (2014-07-26) * Add option `--keep-unreferenced-defs` to preserve elements in `<defs>` that are not referenced and would be removed otherwise. ([#2](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/2)) * Add option to ingore unknown cmd line opts. ## Version 0.28 (2014-01-12) * Add option `--shorten-ids-prefix` which allows to add a custom prefix to all shortened IDs. ([#1](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/1)) ## Version 0.27 (2013-10-26) * Allow direct calling of the Scour module. ## Version 0.26 (2013-10-22) * Re-release of Scour 0.26, re-packaged as a Python module [available from PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scour) (Thanks to [Tobias Oberstet](https://github.com/oberstet)!). * Development moved to GitHub (https://github.com/scour-project/scour). ## Version 0.26 (2011-05-09) * Fix [Bug 702423](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/702423) to function well in the presence of multiple identical gradients and `--disable-style-to-xml`. * Fix [Bug 722544](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/722544) to properly optimize transformation matrices. Also optimize more things away in transformation specifications. (Thanks to Johan Sundström for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 616150](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/616150) to run faster using the `--create-groups` option. * Fix [Bug 708515](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/562784) to handle raster embedding better in the presence of file:// URLs. * Fix [Bug 714717](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714717) to avoid deleting renderable CurveTo commands in paths, which happen to end where they started. * Per [Bug 714727](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714727) and [Bug 714720](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714720), Scour now deletes text attributes, including "text-align", from elements and groups of elements that only contain shapes. (Thanks to Jan Thor for the patches.) * Per [Bug 714731](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714731), remove the default value of more SVG attributes. (Thanks to Jan Thor for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 717826](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/717826) to emit the correct line terminator (CR LF) in optimized SVG content on the version of Scour used in Inkscape on Windows. * Fix [Bug 734933](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/734933) to avoid deleting renderable LineTo commands in paths, which happen to end where they started, if their stroke-linecap property has the value "round". * Fix [Bug 717254](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/717254) to delete `<defs>` elements that become empty after unreferenced element removal. (Thanks to Jan Thor for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 627372](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/627372) to future-proof the parameter passing between Scour and Inkscape. (Thanks to Bernd Feige for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 638764](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/638764), which crashed Scour due to [Python Issue 2531](http://bugs.python.org/issue2531) regarding floating-point handling in ArcTo path commands. (Thanks to [Walther](https://launchpad.net/~walther-md) for investigating this bug.) * Per [Bug 654759](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/654759), enable librsvg workarounds by default in Scour. * Added ID change and removal protection options per [bug 492277](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/492277): `--protect-ids-noninkscape`, `--protect-ids-prefix`, `--protect-ids-list`. (Thanks to Jan Thor for this patch.) ## Version 0.25 (2010-07-11) * Fix [Bug 541889](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/541889) to parse polygon/polyline points missing whitespace/comma separating a negative value. Always output points attributes as comma-separated. * Fix [Bug 519698](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/519698) to properly parse move commands that have line segments. * Fix [Bug 577940](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/577940) to include stroke-dasharray into list of style properties turned into XML attributes. * Fix [Bug 562784](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/562784), typo in Inkscape description * Fix [Bug 603988](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/603988), do not commonize attributes if the element is referenced elsewhere. * Fix [Bug 604000](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/604000), correctly remove default overflow attributes. * Fix [Bug 603994](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/603994), fix parsing of `<style>` element contents when a CDATA is present * Fix [Bug 583758](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/583758), added a bit to the Inkscape help text saying that groups aren't collapsed if IDs are also not stripped. * Fix [Bug 583458](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/583458), another typo in the Inkscape help tab. * Fix [Bug 594930](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/594930), In a `<switch>`, require one level of `<g>` if there was a `<g>` in the file already. Otherwise, only the first subelement of the `<g>` is chosen and rendered. * Fix [Bug 576958](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/576958), "Viewbox option doesn't work when units are set", when renderer workarounds are disabled. * Added many options: `--remove-metadata`, `--quiet`, `--enable-comment-stripping`, `--shorten-ids`, `--renderer-workaround`. ## Version 0.24 (2010-02-05) * Fix [Bug 517064](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/517064) to make XML well-formed again * Fix [Bug 503750](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/503750) fix Inkscape extension to correctly pass `--enable-viewboxing` * Fix [Bug 511186](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/511186) to allow comments outside of the root `<svg>` node ## Version 0.23 (2010-01-04) * Fix [Bug 482215](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/482215) by using os.linesep to end lines * Fix unittests to run properly in Windows * Removed default scaling of image to 100%/100% and creating a viewBox. Added `--enable-viewboxing` option to explicitly turn that on * Fix [Bug 503034](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/503034) by only removing children of a group if the group itself has not been referenced anywhere else in the file ## Version 0.22 (2009-11-09) * Fix [Bug 449803](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/449803) by ensuring input and output filenames differ. * Fix [Bug 453737](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/453737) by updated Inkscape's scour extension with a UI * Fix whitespace collapsing on non-textual elements that had xml:space="preserve" * Fix [Bug 479669](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/479669) to handle empty `<style>` elements. ## Version 0.21 (2009-09-27) * Fix [Bug 427309](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/427309) by updated Scour inkscape extension file to include yocto_css.py * Fix [Bug 435689](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/435689) by properly preserving whitespace in XML serialization * Fix [Bug 436569](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/436569) by getting `xlink:href` prefix correct with invalid SVG ## Version 0.20 (2009-08-31) * Fix [Bug 368716](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/368716) by implementing a really tiny CSS parser to find out if any style element have rules referencing gradients, filters, etc * Remove unused attributes from parent elements * Fix a bug with polygon/polyline point parsing if there was whitespace at the end ## Version 0.19 (2009-08-13) * 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 * Move common attributes to ancestor elements * Fix [Bug 412754](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/401628): Elliptical arc commands must have comma/whitespace separating the coordinates * Scour lengths for svg x,y,width,height,*opacity,stroke-width,stroke-miterlimit ## Version 0.18 (2009-08-09) * 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 (2009-08-03) * 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 (2009-07-30) * Fix [Bug 401628](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+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 (2009-07-05) * added `--keep-editor-data` command-line option * Fix [Bug 395645](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/395645): Keep all identified children inside a defs (Thanks Frederik!) * Fix [Bug 395647](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/395647): Do not remove closepath (Z) path segments ## Version 0.14 (2009-06-10) * 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 (2009-05-19) * 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 ## Version 0.12 (2009-05-17) * 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 (2009-04-28) * 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](http://ronrothman.com/public/leftbraned/xml-dom-minidom-toprettyxml-and-silly-whitespace/). ## Version 0.10 (2009-04-27) * 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 (2009-04-25) * 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 (2009-04-22) * 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 (2009-04-15) * 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 (2009-04-13) * 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 (2009-04-07) * 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

# Release Notes for Scour ## Version 0.36 (2017-08-06) * Fix embedding of raster images which was broken in most cases and did not work at all in Python 3. ([#120](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/62)) * Some minor fixes for statistics output. * Greatly improve the algorithm to reduce numeric precision. * Precision was not properly reduced for some numbers. * Only use reduced precision if it results in a shorter string representation, otherwise preserve full precision in output (e.g. use "123" instead of "1e2" when precision is set to 1). * Reduce precision of lengths in `viewBox` ([#127](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/127)) * Add option `--set-c-precision` which allows to set a reduced numeric precision for control points.
Control points determine how a path is bent in between two nodes and are less sensitive to a reduced precision than the position coordinates of the nodes themselves. This option can be used to save a few additional bytes without affecting visual appearance negatively. * Fix: Unnecessary whitespace was not stripped from elliptical paths. ([#89](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/89)) * Improve and fix functionality to collapse straight paths segments. ([#146](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/146)) * Collapse subpaths of moveto `m` and lineto `l`commands if they have the same direction (before we only collapsed horizontal/vertical `h`/`v` lineto commands). * Attempt to collapse lineto `l` commands into a preceding moveto `m` command (these are then called "implicit lineto commands") * Do not collapse straight path segments in paths that have intermediate markers. ([#145](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/145)) * Preserve empty path segments if they have `stroke-linecap` set to `round` or `square`. They render no visible line but a tiny dot or square. ## Version 0.35 (2016-09-14) * Drop official support for Python 2.6. (While it will probably continue to work for a while compatibility is not guaranteed anymore. If you continue to use Scour with Python 2.6 and should find/fix any compatibility issues pull requests are welcome, though.) * Fix: Unused IDs were not shortended when `--shorten-ids` was used. ([#19](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/62)) * Fix: Most elements were still removed from `` when `--keep-unreferenced-defs` was used. ([#62](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/62)) * Improve escaping of single/double quotes ('/") in attributes. ([#64](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/64)) * Print usage information if no input file was specified (and no data is available from `stdin`). ([#65](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/65)) * Redirect informational output to `stderr` when SVG is output to `stdout`. ([#67](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/67)) * Allow elements to be found via `Document.getElementById()` in the minidom document returned by scourXmlFile(). ([#68](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/68)) * Improve code to remove default attribute values and add a lot of new default values. ([#70](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/70)) * Fix: Only attempt to group elements that the content model allows to be children of a `` when `--create-groups` is specified. ([#98](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/98)) * Fix: Update list of SVG presentation attributes allowing more styles to be converted to attributes and remove two entries (`line-height` and `visibility`) that were actually invalid. ([#99](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/99)) * Add three options that work analoguous to `--remove-metadata` (removes `` elements) ([#102](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/102)) * `--remove-titles` (removes `` elements) * `--remove-descriptions` (removes `<desc>` elements) * `--remove-descriptive-elements` (removes all of the descriptive elements, i.e. `<title>`, `<desc>` and `<metadata>`) * Fix removal rules for the `overflow` attribute. ([#104](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/104)) * Improvement: Automatically order all attributes ([#105](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/105)), as well as `style` declarations ([#107](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/107)) allowing for a constant output across multiple runs of Scour. Before order could change arbitrarily. * Improve path scouring. ([#108](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/108))<br>Notably Scour performs all caculations with enhanced precision now, guaranteeing maximum accuracy when optimizing path data. Numerical precision is reduced as a last step of the optimization according to the `--precision` option. * Fix replacement of removed duplicate gradients if the `fill`/`stroke` properties contained a fallback. ([#109](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/109)) * Fix conversion of cubic Bézier "curveto" commands into "shorthand/smooth curveto" commands. ([#110](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/110)) * Fix some issues due to removal of properties without considering inheritance rules. ([#111](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/111)) ## Version 0.34 (2016-07-25) * Add a function to sanitize an arbitrary Python object containing options for Scour as attributes (usage: `Scour.sanitizeOptions(options)`).<br>This simplifies usage of the Scour module by other scripts while avoiding any compatibility issues that might arise when options are added/removed/renamed in Scour. ([#44](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/44)) * Input/output file can now be specified as positional arguments (e.g. `scour input.svg output.svg`). ([#46](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/46)) * Improve `--help` output by intuitively arranging options in groups. ([#46](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/46)) * Add option `--error-on-flowtext` to raise an exception whenever a non-standard `<flowText>` element is found (which is only supported in Inkscape). If this option is not specified a warning will be shown. ([#53](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/53)) * Automate tests with continouous integration via Travis. ([#52](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/52)) ## Version 0.33 (2016-01-29) * Add support for removal of editor data of Sketch. ([#37](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/37)) * Add option `--verbose` (or `-v`) to show detailed statistics after running Scour. By default only a single line containing the most important information is output now. ## Version 0.32 (2015-12-10) * Add functionality to remove unused XML namespace declarations from the `<svg>` root element. ([#14](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/14)) * Restore unittests which were lost during move to GitHub. ([#24](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/24)) * Fix a potential regex matching issue in `points` attribute of `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` elements. ([#24](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/24)) * Fix a crash with `points` attribute of `<polygon>` and `<polyline>` starting with a negative number. ([#24](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/24)) * Fix encoding issues when input file contained unicode characters. ([#27](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/27)) * Fix encoding issues when using `stding`/`stdout` as input/output. ([#27](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/27)) * Fix removal of comments. If a node contained multiple comments usually not all of them were removed. ([#28](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/28)) ## Version 0.31 (2015-11-16) * Ensure Python 3 compatibility. ([#8](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/8)) * Add option `--nindent` to set the number of spaces/tabs used for indentation (defaults to 1). ([#13](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/13)) * Add option `--no-line-breaks` to suppress output of line breaks and indentation altogether. ([#13](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/13)) * Add option `--strip-xml-space` which removes the specification of `xml:space="preserve"` on the `<svg>` root element which would otherwise disallow Scour to make any whitespace changes in output. ([#13](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/13)) ## Version 0.30 (2014-08-05) * Fix ingoring of additional args when invoked from scons. ## Version 0.29 (2014-07-26) * Add option `--keep-unreferenced-defs` to preserve elements in `<defs>` that are not referenced and would be removed otherwise. ([#2](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/2)) * Add option to ingore unknown cmd line opts. ## Version 0.28 (2014-01-12) * Add option `--shorten-ids-prefix` which allows to add a custom prefix to all shortened IDs. ([#1](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/1)) ## Version 0.27 (2013-10-26) * Allow direct calling of the Scour module. ## Version 0.26 (2013-10-22) * Re-release of Scour 0.26, re-packaged as a Python module [available from PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scour) (Thanks to [Tobias Oberstet](https://github.com/oberstet)!). * Development moved to GitHub (https://github.com/scour-project/scour). ## Version 0.26 (2011-05-09) * Fix [Bug 702423](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/702423) to function well in the presence of multiple identical gradients and `--disable-style-to-xml`. * Fix [Bug 722544](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/722544) to properly optimize transformation matrices. Also optimize more things away in transformation specifications. (Thanks to Johan Sundström for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 616150](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/616150) to run faster using the `--create-groups` option. * Fix [Bug 708515](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/562784) to handle raster embedding better in the presence of file:// URLs. * Fix [Bug 714717](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714717) to avoid deleting renderable CurveTo commands in paths, which happen to end where they started. * Per [Bug 714727](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714727) and [Bug 714720](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714720), Scour now deletes text attributes, including "text-align", from elements and groups of elements that only contain shapes. (Thanks to Jan Thor for the patches.) * Per [Bug 714731](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/714731), remove the default value of more SVG attributes. (Thanks to Jan Thor for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 717826](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/717826) to emit the correct line terminator (CR LF) in optimized SVG content on the version of Scour used in Inkscape on Windows. * Fix [Bug 734933](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/734933) to avoid deleting renderable LineTo commands in paths, which happen to end where they started, if their stroke-linecap property has the value "round". * Fix [Bug 717254](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/717254) to delete `<defs>` elements that become empty after unreferenced element removal. (Thanks to Jan Thor for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 627372](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/627372) to future-proof the parameter passing between Scour and Inkscape. (Thanks to Bernd Feige for the patch.) * Fix [Bug 638764](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/638764), which crashed Scour due to [Python Issue 2531](http://bugs.python.org/issue2531) regarding floating-point handling in ArcTo path commands. (Thanks to [Walther](https://launchpad.net/~walther-md) for investigating this bug.) * Per [Bug 654759](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/654759), enable librsvg workarounds by default in Scour. * Added ID change and removal protection options per [bug 492277](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/492277): `--protect-ids-noninkscape`, `--protect-ids-prefix`, `--protect-ids-list`. (Thanks to Jan Thor for this patch.) ## Version 0.25 (2010-07-11) * Fix [Bug 541889](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/541889) to parse polygon/polyline points missing whitespace/comma separating a negative value. Always output points attributes as comma-separated. * Fix [Bug 519698](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/519698) to properly parse move commands that have line segments. * Fix [Bug 577940](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/577940) to include stroke-dasharray into list of style properties turned into XML attributes. * Fix [Bug 562784](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/562784), typo in Inkscape description * Fix [Bug 603988](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/603988), do not commonize attributes if the element is referenced elsewhere. * Fix [Bug 604000](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/604000), correctly remove default overflow attributes. * Fix [Bug 603994](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/603994), fix parsing of `<style>` element contents when a CDATA is present * Fix [Bug 583758](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/583758), added a bit to the Inkscape help text saying that groups aren't collapsed if IDs are also not stripped. * Fix [Bug 583458](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/583458), another typo in the Inkscape help tab. * Fix [Bug 594930](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/594930), In a `<switch>`, require one level of `<g>` if there was a `<g>` in the file already. Otherwise, only the first subelement of the `<g>` is chosen and rendered. * Fix [Bug 576958](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/576958), "Viewbox option doesn't work when units are set", when renderer workarounds are disabled. * Added many options: `--remove-metadata`, `--quiet`, `--enable-comment-stripping`, `--shorten-ids`, `--renderer-workaround`. ## Version 0.24 (2010-02-05) * Fix [Bug 517064](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/517064) to make XML well-formed again * Fix [Bug 503750](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/503750) fix Inkscape extension to correctly pass `--enable-viewboxing` * Fix [Bug 511186](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/511186) to allow comments outside of the root `<svg>` node ## Version 0.23 (2010-01-04) * Fix [Bug 482215](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/482215) by using os.linesep to end lines * Fix unittests to run properly in Windows * Removed default scaling of image to 100%/100% and creating a viewBox. Added `--enable-viewboxing` option to explicitly turn that on * Fix [Bug 503034](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/503034) by only removing children of a group if the group itself has not been referenced anywhere else in the file ## Version 0.22 (2009-11-09) * Fix [Bug 449803](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/449803) by ensuring input and output filenames differ. * Fix [Bug 453737](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/453737) by updated Inkscape's scour extension with a UI * Fix whitespace collapsing on non-textual elements that had xml:space="preserve" * Fix [Bug 479669](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/479669) to handle empty `<style>` elements. ## Version 0.21 (2009-09-27) * Fix [Bug 427309](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/427309) by updated Scour inkscape extension file to include yocto_css.py * Fix [Bug 435689](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/435689) by properly preserving whitespace in XML serialization * Fix [Bug 436569](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/436569) by getting `xlink:href` prefix correct with invalid SVG ## Version 0.20 (2009-08-31) * Fix [Bug 368716](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/368716) by implementing a really tiny CSS parser to find out if any style element have rules referencing gradients, filters, etc * Remove unused attributes from parent elements * Fix a bug with polygon/polyline point parsing if there was whitespace at the end ## Version 0.19 (2009-08-13) * 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 * Move common attributes to ancestor elements * Fix [Bug 412754](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/401628): Elliptical arc commands must have comma/whitespace separating the coordinates * Scour lengths for svg x,y,width,height,*opacity,stroke-width,stroke-miterlimit ## Version 0.18 (2009-08-09) * 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 (2009-08-03) * 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 (2009-07-30) * Fix [Bug 401628](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+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 (2009-07-05) * added `--keep-editor-data` command-line option * Fix [Bug 395645](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/395645): Keep all identified children inside a defs (Thanks Frederik!) * Fix [Bug 395647](https://bugs.launchpad.net/scour/+bug/395647): Do not remove closepath (Z) path segments ## Version 0.14 (2009-06-10) * 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 (2009-05-19) * 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 ## Version 0.12 (2009-05-17) * 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 (2009-04-28) * 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](http://ronrothman.com/public/leftbraned/xml-dom-minidom-toprettyxml-and-silly-whitespace/). ## Version 0.10 (2009-04-27) * 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 (2009-04-25) * 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 (2009-04-22) * 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 (2009-04-15) * 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 (2009-04-13) * 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 (2009-04-07) * 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