svg-flatten

svg-flatten
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Turns SVG shapes (polygon, polyline, rect, g) into SVG paths. It can merge groups and apply transforms

How to use?
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``js
const svgFlatten = require('svg-flatten')
const fs = require('fs')

let flattendSvgPath = 'tmp-flattened.svg'

// read SVG file into string
let svgString = fs.readFileSync('circle-rect.svg', 'utf8')
// convert all objects to paths
let modifiedSvgString = svgFlatten(svgString).pathify().value()
// write SVG string to disk
fs.writeFileSync(flattendSvgPath,modifiedSvgString)
``

API
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Reads SVG content and creates a SvgFlatten instance.

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Turns SVG shapes (polygon, polyline, rect, g) into SVG paths. It is needed before other transformations.

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Converts groups of paths to a fat path, combining all child paths into one.

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Apply SVG transformations to paths.

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Returns the final result as SVG content.

Need more info?
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Sadly, I wrote this lib for an old project (2016) and didn't need to tweak it since. It is not actively maintened, but I'll try to watch pull-requests.