diff --git a/editor/svg-editor.html b/editor/svg-editor.html
index f4094c98..84ae5dd4 100644
--- a/editor/svg-editor.html
+++ b/editor/svg-editor.html
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 	<div>
 		<img class="tool_button" id="tool_clear" src="images/clear.png" title="New Image [N]" alt="Clear" />
 		<img class="tool_button" id="tool_save" src="images/save.png" title="Save Image [S]" alt="Save"/>
-		<!--img class="tool_button" id="tool_source" src="images/source.png" title="Edit Source [U]" alt="Source"/-->
+		<img class="tool_button" id="tool_source" src="images/source.png" title="Edit Source [U]" alt="Source"/>
 	</div>
 
     <!-- History buttons -->
diff --git a/editor/svg-editor.js b/editor/svg-editor.js
index 78bd6f08..29cc5d0a 100644
--- a/editor/svg-editor.js
+++ b/editor/svg-editor.js
@@ -411,7 +411,6 @@ function svg_edit_setup() {
 	};
 	
 	// TODO: prevent 'u' from showing up in the textarea
-	// TODO: prevent extra carriage returns
 	// TODO: properly size the text area during resize
 	// TODO: properly handle error conditions (error msg dialog)
 	// TODO: prevent @style showing up on the svg element
@@ -420,7 +419,6 @@ function svg_edit_setup() {
 		if (editingsource) return;
 		editingsource = true;
 		var str = svgCanvas.getSvgString();
-		console.log(str);
 		$('#svg_source_textarea').val(str);
 		$('#svg_source_editor').fadeIn();
 		properlySourceSizeTextArea();
diff --git a/editor/svgcanvas.js b/editor/svgcanvas.js
index bd8787d8..b721c220 100644
--- a/editor/svgcanvas.js
+++ b/editor/svgcanvas.js
@@ -545,7 +545,11 @@ function SvgCanvas(c)
 	// this function only keeps what is allowed from our whitelist defined above
 	var sanitizeSvg = function(node) {
 		// we only care about element nodes
-		// automatically return for all text, comment, etc nodes
+		// automatically return for all comment, etc nodes
+		// for text, we do a whitespace trim
+		if (node.nodeType == 3) {
+			node.nodeValue = node.nodeValue.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
+		}
 		if (node.nodeType != 1) return;
 		
 		var doc = node.ownerDocument;
@@ -617,9 +621,10 @@ function SvgCanvas(c)
 						out.push("\n");
 						out.push(svgToString(childs.item(i), indent));
 					} else if (child.nodeType == 3) { // text node
-						bOneLine = true;
-						if (child.nodeValue != "") {
-							out.push(child.nodeValue + "");
+						var str = child.nodeValue.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
+						if (str != "") {
+							bOneLine = true;
+							out.push(str + "");
 						}
 					}
 				}
@@ -1338,7 +1343,6 @@ function SvgCanvas(c)
 	// FIXME: after parsing in the new file, how do we synchronize getId()?
 	this.setSvgString = function(xmlString) {
 		try {
-			console.log(xmlString);
 			// convert string into XML document
 			var newDoc = Utils.text2xml(xmlString);