NAME

Image::CairoSVG - render SVG into a Cairo surface

SYNOPSIS

This example converts an SVG into a PNG:

    use Cairo;
    use Image::CairoSVG;
    my $cairosvg = Image::CairoSVG->new ();
    my $surface = $cairosvg->render ("$Bin/locust.svg");
    $surface->write_to_png ("$Bin/locust.png");

This renders the following image:

(This example is included as synopsis.pl in the distribution. The input and output files are also included.)

VERSION

This documents version 0.07 of Image::CairoSVG corresponding to git commit 2c5151c9cbc6492190a2c7f8722e7f04bc09ba79 released on Thu Dec 15 11:16:22 2016 +0900.

DESCRIPTION

This module renders some kinds of SVG ("Scalable Vector Graphics") instructions into a Cairo surface.

METHODS

new

    my $cairosvg = Image::CairoSVG->new ();

The user can supply a Cairo surface:

    my $cairosvg = Image::CairoSVG->new (surface => $surface);

For example,

    my $cairosvg = Image::CairoSVG->new (
        surface => Cairo::ImageSurface->create ('argb32', 100, 100)
    );

The user can also supply a Cairo context:

    my $cairosvg = Image::CairoSVG->new (context => $cr);

If a Cairo context is supplied, the value of surface is ignored, and the image is written using the context value.

render

    my $surface = $cairosvg->render ('some.svg');

Draw an SVG file into a Cairo surface. The return value is the surface drawn into. If the user does not supply a context or surface in "new", a new Cairo::ImageSurface object is generated from the attributes of the <svg> element, either the width and height attributes, or the width and height specified in the viewBox attribute. If the user supplied a context with "new", the return value should be ignored. If the user supplied a surface with "new", the return value is just that surface.

DRAWING METHODS

All of these methods take the attributes of the specific element after which they're named. So, for example, if you have an SVG line element, you can parse its attributes with an XML parser, then send the hash of key/value pairs in the attributes to "line".

line

    $cairosvg->line (%attr);

Render an SVG line onto the surface specified by $cairosvg. Given SVG input of the form <line >, this renders it onto the Cairo surface.

path

    $cairosvg->path (%attr);

Given an SVG path element, send its attribute key / value pairs as %attr to render into the Cairo surface of $cairosvg. This uses Image::SVG::Path to render the "d" attibute of the path. It also converts quadratic bezier curves into cubic bezier curves.

rect

    $cairosvg->rect (%attr);

ellipse

    $cairosvg->ellipse (%attr);

circle

    $cairosvg->circle (%attr);

polygon

    $cairosvg->polygon (%attr);

DEPENDENCIES

Cairo

Cairo is used for rendering the image.

Carp

Carp is used for reporting errors.

Image::SVG::Path

Image::SVG::Path is used for parsing the "path" information of the SVG.

XML::Parser

XML::Parser is used for parsing SVG files.

SEE ALSO

CairoSVG

CairoSVG is a Python SVG renderer in Cairo. Parts of the code here are based on it.

Other CPAN modules related to SVG

Image::SVG::Path

This is for reading the "d" attribute of SVG paths.

MarpaX::Languages::SVG::Parser

This extends the Marpa::R2 parser to parse SVG.

SVG

This is for generating SVG documents.

Image::LibRSVG

Perl extension for a Gnome library called librsvg which converts SVG to PNG or JPEG, etc. I have not tested this library.

SVG::Rasterize

Rasterize SVG content to pixel graphics.

More information

Perl Maven article

SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl - article at Perl Maven

BUGS

This module is a "least effort" attempt to get the parts of SVG which the author needs rendered, rendered. It doesn't even pretend to be a full SVG renderer. So, if you find the module doesn't do some part of SVG which you want done, please add that to the module, and contribute your addition to this module via the github repository.

AUTHOR

Ben Bullock, <bkb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENCE

This package and associated files are copyright (C) 2014-2016 Ben Bullock.

You can use, copy, modify and redistribute this package and associated files under the Perl Artistic Licence or the GNU General Public Licence.

cairosvg licence

Some parts of the module (specifically the SVG arc drawing code) are translations from the above-mentioned Python program "cairosvg", which is under the "GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007". I'm not really sure how or if this affects the code, but just in case it causes legal issues for someone downstream, I'm mentioning it here.

cpanm Image::CairoSVG

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Image::CairoSVG