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iamben on Aug 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Minify Your SVGs

Illustrator has an export SVG function (as opposed to just saving as an SVG, which I was doing and then using a minifer for a long time) that will minify it for you.

That said, it currently appears unable to reopen those minified SVGs (go figure).

pier25 on Aug 13, 2019 [–]

FYI you can copy any vector in Illustrator and when you paste it somewhere it is actually SVG code.

detritus on Aug 13, 2019 | [–]

Which is why I fairly frequently end up with amusingly-long pastes of raw svg markup being posted into email fields... .

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