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Re: SVG Path Editor

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it in Firefox and Chrome, but changing the SVG shape did not change the favicon displayed on the tab. I don't think I understand what you meant. PS: This submission of mine is at least a day old, but it now shows as posted about 3 hours ago; I presume this is because it is from the second-chance pool.

I think they meant it as a feature suggestion (given that it should be easy to implement since SVG files can be used as favicons).

yes indeed

Re: SVG Path Editor

#22
post #7

I use this often when I need to work with individual path commands, it’s a great tool!

Same! My use case is 2d splines for use in openSCAD, stuff that eventually arrives at my doorstep from a 3d printing service. I just love the ability to overlay reference bitmaps, super valuable for the parts I've been making.

Before stumbling upon this tool, I've spent a lot of time tweaking SVP paths in "mostly manual" files in other projects, it's a recurring theme for me. I was delegating the more interesting paths to Inkscape or similar, but keeping the basic structure handwritten. This tool would have made my life so much easier!

Re: SVG Path Editor

#23

Very cool! I wish more editors would exist as web services, easily solving the cross-platformity that way.

I'm in the opposite camp. Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing. Well and I can eat the cake as well, make it some native app that has proper performance.

> Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing.

This is open source, so whether or not it's a web app should make no difference here

Re: SVG Path Editor

#25
post #16

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

If you search for ‘vectorization AI’ there are a handful of specialized tools and apis that can do it. It worked well for a handful of logos I wanted to convert. Nano banana generated the raster logos, and these other tools vectorized them

Even inkscape can do this

Re: SVG Path Editor

#26

Very cool! I wish more editors would exist as web services, easily solving the cross-platformity that way.

This isn't a web service. It's a browser-based tool that runs entirely on your device. It's published as a static site on GitHub Pages, and ("but"?) everything it's doing is all happening fully in-browser.

Re: SVG Path Editor

#27

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

Others have mentioned SVG AI tools... I've tried 3-4 over the previous days and eventually ended up with svgai.org (after I've used Google Gemini for bitmap).

You can instruct it to make edits, or say "Use SVG gradients for the windows" and so on and you can further iterate on the SVG.

It can be frustrating at times, but the end result was worth it for me.

Though for some images I've done 2-3 roundtrips manual editing, Nano Banana, svgai.org ...

The advantage is that it produces sane output paths that I can edit easily for final manual touches in Inkscape.

Some of the other "AI" tools are often just simply algorithms for bitmap->vector and the paths/curves they produce are harder to work with, and also give a specific feel to the vector art..

Re: SVG Path Editor

#28
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you search for ‘vectorization AI’ there are a handful of specialized tools and apis that can do it. It worked well for a handful of logos I wanted to convert. Nano banana generated the raster logos, and these other tools vectorized them

Even inkscape can do this

But only gives useful results some of the time. But I don't know if "vectorization AI" is already better.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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post #16

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

If you search for ‘vectorization AI’ there are a handful of specialized tools and apis that can do it. It worked well for a handful of logos I wanted to convert. Nano banana generated the raster logos, and these other tools vectorized them

I haven't seen one that worked properly—can you list a couple examples? Some of the ones that say they're "AI" are just VTracer / Potrace and don't give nice control points.
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