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An .SVG file IS a source file. It isn't layers in the Photoshop/Gimp sense but it absolutely can be picked apart. Use an SVG editor - that would be Illustrator or Inkscape. Alternatively, if you want to get real crazy you can open the .SVG in any text editor and look for the values you want to change which for colors would be in Hex format #nnnnnn.
Be sure your colors in the source SVG are actually expressed in HEX. Sometimes they are represented in other ways; for example the ImageMagick command. convert -size 8x8 -xc:black -bordercolor \#888 -frame 8x8 file.svg produces a 24x24 SVG file with the pixels expressed as an embedded PNG, and a simple text editor won't work on such SVG files.
Although you will not be able to edit the curves so to speak (Photoshop is not a vector editing program...Illustrator is) the image will not be rasterised, and is fully scalable and non-destructively editable. Chose File > Place Embedded (or Place Linked). Double click to edit the contents of the Smart Object (the SVG file in Illustrator).
SVG is an XML based format. This means that you can edit the SVG (carefully) as regular text just like you would edit a web page. You could then use the text editing functionalities of your favourite text or web editor (such as "replace in all open files") to make bulk changes.
5. Inkscape is an open source vector editing program specifically built around SVG. It includes an XML editor which allows you to view and edit the live SVG code of your image. Open the XML Editor by going to . Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program — XML Editor. Share.
SVG is intended for the web, but nothing stops you from using it for print. Although I doubt it support all PDF/EPS features. SVG is intended as a final file too, but is can be used as working file. Inkscape can edit SVG files, although it doesn't has the features Adobe Illustrator has, but for a free Open Source app it's awesome.
It is very rare, to find editors that allow for full data roundtripping. In general Inkscape is a bewtter SVG editor since thats what it was built to be, whereas Illustrator is a EPS/PDF editor in its core. That said there is a high chance that the data does not survive Inkscape. In those cases its just better to do the thing in a text editor.
Illustrator can export graphic styles as CSS in a style element and applies them via classes in the SVG code. This is how you can generate classes in your exported SVG. Depending on what you want those classes to do, you could just define them in another CSS file and remove the style definitions from the exported SVG.
The SVG files were autogenerated and have text objects. Within an SVG file, the text is nicely editable. For example in Incscape I can directly edit the text, add characters etc. After converting to emf (since I believe PowerPoint has no support for SVGs) I am trying to embed these emfs on a slide. However, while the shapes are nicely editable ...
head -n 53 demo-cats.svg takes the first 53 lines from the svg, which contains all the svg-boilerplate. Depending on your settings with different svg-formats (inkscape, compressed, normal svg, inkscape-compressed) this might vary. With nl demo-cats.svg | less you can numerate the lines, to find the right cutting point in your case.