On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:17:04PM +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
> >
> > xmllint --format for_test_here.svg | wc -l
>
> That restores some of the newlines, but inkscape seems to place tag
> attributes on their own separate lines for readability, so the outputs
> still differ, unless you pass both through that same process.
> Comparing two processed outputs still reveals a difference, such as a
> comment in the original saying "Created with Inkscape..." and some
> attributes not preserved by LibreOffice, including namespaces Inkscape
> uses that LibreOffice doesn't.
>
Those sort of things, if they don't dominate the diff, are
pretty easy to skim past, as long as larger scale changes (like altering
the paths, as described above) don't interfere. I think anything beyond
hand-crufted xfig is going to have some less-than-absolute minimal
changes. And there are only two of us are left who know how to hand
cruft xfig!
Ross "hyperbole for effect" Reedstrom
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