Freestyle export to SVG produces thousands of very small lines. #105203

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Robert S · 2024-02-27T17:06:44+01:00

Robert S commented

2024-02-27 17:06:44 +01:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: Quadro RTX 3000 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 529.19

Blender Version
Broken: version: 4.0.2, branch: blender-v4.0-release, commit date: 2023-12-05 07:41, hash: 9be62e85b727
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Addon Information
Name: Freestyle SVG Exporter (1, 0)
Author: Folkert de Vries

Short description of error
SVG output from this add-on is usually in the megabytes. That's orders of magnitude too large a file size of a vector based file format, especially from rather simple line drawings. It also makes it quite difficult and cumbersome to develop further in other applications.

There's options for chaining in regular Blender, but unsure if it means something other than merging end points of lines, or if export to SVG simply ignores it.

There could also be a cause for some optimization with regards to 2D angle merging as well in order to reduce point count (and file size).

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Load up pretty much any scene with a few characters (not just simple boxes) and do an SVG export and look at the file size. Files quickly run into 3-4mb in size when a few hundred kilobytes should do.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: Quadro RTX 3000 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 529.19 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 4.0.2, branch: blender-v4.0-release, commit date: 2023-12-05 07:41, hash: `9be62e85b727` Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected) **Addon Information** Name: Freestyle SVG Exporter (1, 0) Author: Folkert de Vries **Short description of error** SVG output from this add-on is usually in the megabytes. That's orders of magnitude too large a file size of a vector based file format, especially from rather simple line drawings. It also makes it quite difficult and cumbersome to develop further in other applications. There's options for chaining in regular Blender, but unsure if it means something other than merging end points of lines, or if export to SVG simply ignores it. There could also be a cause for some optimization with regards to 2D angle merging as well in order to reduce point count (and file size). **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Load up pretty much any scene with a few characters (not just simple boxes) and do an SVG export and look at the file size. Files quickly run into 3-4mb in size when a few hundred kilobytes should do.

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Pratik Borhade commented

2024-03-08 11:01:44 +01:00

Hi, thanks for the report. I see file size easily goes to few megabytes but potential improvements are not considered as bug.
Also the add-on is not actively maintained AFAICS. cc @flokkievids

Hi, thanks for the report. I see file size easily goes to few megabytes but potential improvements are not considered as bug. Also the add-on is not actively maintained AFAICS. cc @flokkievids

Pratik Borhade added

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Needs Info from Developers

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labels 2024-03-08 11:01:55 +01:00

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