"Stroke to path" command adds font info to style for item when it wasn't even a font to begin with

[rickmastfan67]

Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939
Windows 7 x64

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an item with just a stroke. (or load the attachment)
2. Look at the "style" info for the item you have created (in a text editor):

style="fill:none;stroke:#00ffff;stroke-width:10;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none"

3. Path > Stroke to Path
4. Save
5. Now reload the file in a trusty text editor and notice that after you have done the "Stroke to Path" command, Inkscape has added font info to your file, causing the file to become bloated with un-needed info.

style="font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;text-indent:0;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;line-height:normal;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;direction:ltr;block-progression:tb;writing-mode:lr-tb;text-anchor:start;baseline-shift:baseline;color:#000000;fill:#00ffff;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:10;marker:none;visibility:visible;display:inline;overflow:visible;enable-background:accumulate;font-family:Sans;-inkscape-font-specification:Sans"

What should happen:
Inkscape should either keep the same style info as before (except for the needed flip of the color from stroke to fill) the "Stroke to Path" command was used, or just use the minimal style info possible to keep the file size down (just the fill info).

Now, I can understand having the font info being kept intact if the item was a font to begin with, but not adding it to a quickly drawn item that you wanted to convert from a single line to a filled item via the "Stroke to Path" command.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk revision 12475.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Duplicate of Bug #168720 “Text styles remain in type objects converted to paths.”?

(Other related reports: bug #890139, bug #744819, bug #390549, bug #171983)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> Duplicate of Bug #168720 “Text styles remain in type objects converted to paths.”?

Nevermind - not a duplicate of this one.

IIRC <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/890139/comments/3> was the result last time I tried to find an explanation for this behavior.

[rickmastfan67 (rickmastfan67)]

Just wanted to also mention that while I was working on a file that I made 15 items in (they were never fonts) that needed to be converted from stroke to path, Inkscape bloated the file by over 10kb that I had to manually clean out because of this bug.

So, if somebody had to do this, say, 100 times in one file and none of the items were a "font" at any time, it could easily add over 75kb+ to the file size that isn't needed . That isn't good. And saving it as a "plain" svg doesn't help fix this problem at all since the items added are legit non-Inkscape only lines.

[Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free)]

In trunk (0.91), you can optionally tell Inkscape to cleanout unneeded attributes and properties under the Input/Output -> SVG output tab in the Inkscape Preferences dialog. Make sure you have a backup file the first time you try this.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Hi - thanks for reporting!

As part of the manual bug migration to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, I've closed the here. The issue can still be tracked in https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/967

Note it has been fixed in 1.1-dev, but remains in 1.0.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/967
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/nathanal

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Arg, wrong label again, should be Fix Committed.