SVG Path Import/Export not working correctly

[pzich]

Description/Steps to reproduce

Something seems to be working incorrectly with the importing->parsing->serializing->exporting flow for SVG path commands.

Here I'm creating a new paper.Path(pathA.getAttribute("d")) from a given SVG, then using paper.project.exportSVG({}) to generate an export. Even for simple shapes like this outlined circle and square, something seems to be working incorrectly, possibly involving how the close path is handled?

I'm not familiar with how these commands are processed internally so I'm not sure how best to debug this further.

Link to reproduction test-case

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/paperjs-imp-exp-rn5qt2

Expected result

The imported path should be exported in a visually identical way.

Additional information

macOS 13.6, Safari 17.0

[pzich]

I found that the issue here is I was using paper.Path instead of paper.CompoundPath. It seems that if you give the normal Path a pathData string containing multiple separate paths, it joins the end of each together.

It seems like this should either:

• throw an error
• log some sort of warning
• automatically create a CompoundPath instead
• only include one (probably the first?) shape in the pathData

[paradoxmr24]

Thanks a lot man, you are a life saver 😊