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Sodipodi does it complicated edit
This is an interesting case how simple needs can be solved very complicated.
This very simple graphic needs 9 black squares. Each of it can be drawn easily with 63 to 65 bytes when doing it simple, which would need 578 bytes for all of them. Additionally two rectangle-shapes are to be drawn.
Sodipodi does it by cloning; each "use" is written so complicated that it needs about 180 bytes, that makes with the sample-def 1780 bytes - for just 9 small squares.
With a lot of transform commands and other redundant stuff a file size of 4250 bytes is achieved.
With all this effort the drawing is not without error; the simplification (292 bytes) cares for accurate equal distances between the small squares, where the Sodipodi version locates them differently. Instead of drawing each small square for itself, they are drawn all with one single (and not too complicated) path command; another path draws the two shapes. That's all.
