svgbobrus VS svgcleaner

I recently had to draw some diagrams for documenting something. After looking at various Markdown-friendly options I landed on svgbob[1]. I believe it's a superior solution to these kinds of graph drawing tools for Markdown for one specific reason: the code is still readable. When I go to look at a Markdown file I don't always open the output. I will commonly open up a README file in Vim or just cat it to the terminal. In this case diagrams like those in this post is next to useless. I'm not going to read through some complex drawing definitions and try to visualise the results. With svgbob (or Typograms[2] or any of the other similar options) you can still read the Markdown text document and see the diagrams which is great!

Of course this comes with a tradeoff, drawing the diagrams can be a bit of a pain. But I believe this can be solved by a good Markdown editor or editor plugin. Alternatively a spec like this could be converted into an svgbob-compatible diagram.

[1]https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

Online playground svgbob-editor is also updated to use the latest version of svgbob. It is however a painfully slow to edit the diagrams from there, so it's better if you draw the diagram somwhere else and paste it to there.

There’s Svgbob. Plus when it comes to more complex diagrams or graphs where creating the ASCII art by hand in can be quite finicky, there’s a number of tools (including drawing tools) to make creating ASCII art much easier.

https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

svgbob

Since the post contains ASCII art, let me recommend you svgbob :)

The app can now render Svgbob code blocks (https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor).

I'm not sure, but it seems svgcleaner can remove unused and invisible graphical elements[1]. I don't know if TinyVG preserves them. but if it does, it's not a fair comparison.

Did you try converting svgcleaner processed SVG to a TVG?

[1] https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner

oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images

One of the new features of Godot 4 is svg with embeds like svg, jpg and png. Also if you have svg fonts, you can clean it with https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner and it may import.

svgcleaner is designed for standalone SVG files, and will fail on or butcher a significant fraction of inline SVG icons and the likes because it can’t cope with currentColor.

There's also SVG Cleaner which has some compelling benefits over SVGO.

svgcleaner is a CLI (command line) tool which cleans up vector files. Often, vector files will have a lot of extra “stuff” in them that aren’t needed for the presentation side of things, so this helps to reduce the file size. I store both the original vector of the icon, and a cleaned version.