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Can't ungroup my SVG logo ?!?

I converted my raster logo into an SVG using the Potrace in Inkscape. Yes, I'm very certain it's an SVG now. Anyway, I can't break it apart, or ungroup it. It's available from http://ans.nre.ufl.edu/ANS%2009%20SC%20Logo.svg <-- Right-click & Save Target As...

(I'm not uploading it to EE intentionally, because I probably shouldn't keep it floating around unnecessarily. Please don't attach it to this question -- all I really need is a how-to anyway, as I need to learn this.)

Lolly-Ink

I would clean it up in a text editor to get rid of all the crap that gets added to the SVG file.

Converting raster images into SVG using Inkscape can give unexpected results. Humans would definitely do it differently to what this computer algorithm does it. Even so, its probably the best converter available (for free at least).

If you spread out each resulting path element using transforms (see below), you can see what makes up the SVG image. You can definitely get rid of many redundant layers there.

  <path transform="translate(-6000,-6000)"
...
  <path transform="translate(-6000,0)"
...
  <path transform="translate(-6000,6000)"
...
  <path transform="translate(0, -6000)"
...
  <path transform="translate(0,0)"
...
  <path transform="translate(0,6000)"
...
  <path transform="translate(6000,-6000)"
...
  <path transform="translate(6000,0)"
...
  <path transform="translate(6000,6000)"
...
  <path transform="translate(-12000,0)"

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travisjbennett

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I did it layer by layer of the source (raster) PhotoShop file. Took longer, but it worked.

Thanks

travisjbennett

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I did it layer by layer of the source (raster) PhotoShop file. Took longer, but it worked.

Thanks