SVGs with superfluous paths about phylopic HOT 11 CLOSED

No, this was submitted before automatic vectorization was added. It's the SVG file as submitted. And stuff like this can still happen on new submissions, if submitted as SVG. I have not thought up a good solution to this, but I would love to "sanitize" submitted vector images, similar what's done with the raster images.

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Another idea would be to offer a "sanitized" version and the original, separately, That might be better. Wouldn't need a change to the API, since sourceFile and vectorFile are already available. (Currently they indicate the same file, if uploaded as an SVG.)

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Opened a PR for this: #28

(It actually should be working in production already, but this PR is needed to keep it working going forward, as well as to make some UI and verbiage adjustments.)

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Ideally the sanitization would be done in the web browser as part of the Contribute Tool, so unfortunately ImageMagick/Inkscape/etc. are not ideal solutions. One idea would be to render the submitted SVG very large and then "revectorize" it (with potrace), but that would remove grey areas (which are sometimes desirable) and possibly key details.

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I like the idea of a separate "sanitized" version

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Yeah, that seems like the best option. The real question is, what's the best way to "sanitize"? Or maybe "normalize" is a better term? The "revectorization" idea is the best I've got, but I don't love it.

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Maybe I'm okay with it....
Can always change it to something else later.

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Another example of a bad SVG: https://www.phylopic.org/images/3d8acaf6-4355-491e-8e86-4a411b53b98b/sus-scrofa
It's actually just a png with an SVG clip path on top.

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Thanks, I'll fix that one manually in the next build.

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Thanks!

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Excellent!

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