SVG Clean script
Python SVG clean scrip
I use inkscape to edit and create SVGs and it adds loads of tags that bloat the file.
This script will remove those tags.
| import sys | |
| import tkinter as tk | |
| from tkinter import filedialog | |
| from tkinter import messagebox | |
| import re | |
| def clean_svg_file(content): | |
| replacement = content | |
| for nsName in tags: | |
| print(nsName) | |
| reg_xmlns = ‘xmlns:‘ + nsName + ‘=”.*?”\\s*‘ | |
| reg_tag = ‘<‘ + nsName + ‘:([^>]|[\\s])*?((\\/>)|(>[\\s\\S]*?<\\/‘ + nsName + ‘:.*?>))\\s*‘ | |
| reg_attr = nsName + ‘:.*?=”.*?”\\s*‘ | |
| replacement = re.sub(reg_xmlns, ‘‘, replacement) | |
| replacement = re.sub(reg_tag, ‘‘, replacement) | |
| replacement = re.sub(reg_attr, ‘‘, replacement) | |
| return replacement | |
| def file_save(text): | |
| f = filedialog.asksaveasfile(mode=‘w‘, defaultextension=“.svg“) | |
| if f is None: # asksaveasfile return `None` if dialog closed with “cancel”. | |
| return | |
| f.write(text) | |
| f.close() | |
| messagebox.showinfo(“Information“, “File has been cleaned.“) | |
| def file_open(): | |
| file_path = filedialog.askopenfilename(defaultextension=“.svg“) | |
| with open(file_path) as f: | |
| read_data = f.read() | |
| f.close() | |
| return read_data | |
| try: | |
| root = tk.Tk() | |
| root.withdraw() | |
| tags = [‘inkscape‘, ‘sodipodi‘, ‘rdf‘, ‘cc‘, ‘dc‘, ‘metadata‘] | |
| file_data = file_open() | |
| question = messagebox.askokcancel(“Clean file“, “Do you want to clean the file from “ | |
| “‘inkscape’, ‘sodipodi’, ‘rdf’, ‘cc’, ‘dc’, ‘metadata“) | |
| if question: | |
| cleaned = clean_svg_file(file_data) | |
| file_save(cleaned) | |
| sys.exit(0) | |
| except: | |
| print(sys.exc_info()[0]) | |
| messagebox.showerror(“Error“, “Could not clean file\n“ + str(sys.exc_info()[0])) | |
| raise | |
| sys.exit(1) |