Comment 2 for bug 481605

I might consider this if a decent algorithm/spec could be written to tease out the details.

How do we consider a set of shapes as should-be-combined? do we look at the intersection of all possible shapes with other possible shapes and if they intersect and have the same fill-style, fill-opacity, fill color and no stroke then we would try to trace the contour? This is a really complicated algorithm, actually - and computationally expensive.

If you have an example file with these 'hundreds of simple shapes' that should be combined, I can take a look and see if it's remotely in the realm of one day accomplishing with scour. I still think the best bet is to educate the graphics designer. Scour is not the right place to correct these types of practices :)