-----Original Message----- From: njh [mailto:njh@...1927...] Sent: zondag 29 juni 2008 19:01 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; lib2geom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lib2geom-devel] path parsing - nartbpath optimization?

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:

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Hi all,

When parsing "M 0,0 1,0 1,1 0,1 0,0 z", the old nartbpath

optimizes it

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and stores it like: "M 0,0 1,0 1,1 0,1 z". The 2geom path

parser does

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not. So when writing the path back to svg, nartbpath and

2geom don't

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match up.

Write a path optimiser function. If you're going to optimise this, why not consider more interesting optimisations like reparameterisation?

This may be a good idea for later, but for now I was interested in "the right"(TM) behavior. What Inkscape used to be doing.

:) Johan