SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No more 
PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them…



Go to iconfinder.com… download what you want as svg.



Note that there are cases where the svg is in several paths. So if you open in 
Illustrator, select all and make compound path, save and *then* use that in the 
SVG widget… it works.. even unexpectedly where you may have e.g. 3 dots that 
you would think must be independent paths…



My suggestion is that you might better expose that tip on making compound paths.



Which then leads my question on user contributions channels. Let's say we 
discover something useful that we feel is really buried in terms of what 
newbies would need and might be frustrated trying to find.



How does one best get that into the mix of documentatin/tutorials. Another 
useful channel I see is YouTube itself… lots of people posting things like "How 
to do this in Outlook"   3 minutes, max



But it is fragmented.



We do a lot of small tech screen casts internally and it would be trivioal for 
me or many others to start recording video and just do a "Up and Running with 
SVG Icon"   2 minutes, open stack, drag SVG icon out. Switch to browser, 
download SVG switch to illustrator, make compound path, open in Atom, copy and 
paste into Livecod… and verbalize the gotchas  like "if your path doesn't start 
with "m" then it wont' work… be sure to select between the quotes… you don't 
need all that code at the top. Etc."



So if one did make such a screen cast. Where would it go



We are not talking about issues/problems or work around, but just things that 
actually do work but which may be obscure.



BR



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