Creating SVG icons

Some breadcrumbs for how I generated SVG icons.

• Created/edited icons in Libre Office drawing package (.sdg file)
• Exported as PDF (LO SVG export is rubbish)
• Use pdftocairo to convert to SVG

pdfcairo -svg bank.pdf bank.svg

• Open SVG file in emacs, and put into text mode.
• edit width/height and viewbox attributes of the svg tag

    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
     width="145pt" height="130pt" viewBox="40 27 140 139" version="1.2">

• find the first fill rule, and change the opacity to 0 (makes the background transparent)

    <path style=" stroke:none;fill-rule:evenodd;fill:rgb(100%,100%,100%);fill-opacity:0;" d="M 0 0 L 595.199219 0 L 595.199219 841.898438 L 0 841.898438 Z "/>