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Cropping SVGs in a Text Editor

I have known for a long time that SVG images are vector based, hence the name “Scalable Vector Graphics”. But it only occurred to me today that SVG is an XML-based image format, which means they can be opened and modified as a regular text file. For the MishMash application, we used PDF versions of the figures (which worked well when writing in LaTeX). However, as I am now working on the first web page for MishMash, I discovered that we have SVG versions of the figures....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · ARJ