It's the anchor and control point coordinates in the path. But my question was- why have 8 decimal places when my target pixel resolution is barely 1/10th pixel? Like I said above, I was studying the SVG directly, probably looking at the formulation of bezier curves, and just needed something easier...

I believe ~suv has solved it! ! Yes, I see the numeric precision is 1, and I recall lowering it so that I could more easily manipulate the SVG output by eye. I now use python to do any extractions from the SVG itself. I have set the numeric precision back to 8, and so far it seems to be back to norm...

Thank you for the reply. I'm afraid that I was expecting a notification to appear if there was activity on this post, and I had not gotten one. I was seconds away from buying Illustrator when I decided to look one more time and confirm. In regular mode (versus Spiro) the tool creates a very similar ...

To see how my smooth drawing is forced into aligned nodes, see https://youtu.be/bGruR4Ce3d0 for a ~30 second demonstration. You will see that the results are the same before and after turning off snapping. Smoothing on the pencil tool :tool_pencil: is down to its lowest setting- 1. I switch to the n...