svgedit

SVG-edit

SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser.

Demo

Try SVG-edit here

See the latest release (or its ES6-Module version, which requires a modern browser).

You may also try it at https://unpkg.com/svgedit/editor/svg-editor.html (which redirects to a versioned URL).

You may also obtain URLs for specific releases.

For testing the latest version in master, you may use https://raw.githack.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit/master/editor/svg-editor.html.

Installation

Quick install

1. Clone or copy the repository contents (at least the editor directory).
2. If you need programmatic customization, see its section below.
3. Otherwise, just add an iframe to your site, adding any extensions or configuration (see docs/tutorials/ConfigOptions.md ([ConfigOptions]{@tutorial ConfigOptions})) within the URL:

<iframe src="svgedit/editor/svg-editor.html?extensions=" width="100%" height="100%"></iframe>

Integrating SVG-edit into your own npm package

These steps are only needed if you wish to set up your own npm package incorporating SVGEdit.

1. Create your npm package: npm init (complete the fields).
2. Install SVG-edit into your package: npm i svgedit.
3. Look within node_modules/svgedit/, e.g., node_modules/svgedit/editor/svg-editor.html for the files your package needs and use accordingly.
4. npm publish

Programmatic customization

1. If you are not concerned about supporting ES6 Modules (see the "ES6 Modules file" section), you can add your config directly to svgedit-config-iife.js within the SVG-Edit project root.
2. Note: Do not remove the import svgEditor... code which is responsible for importing the SVG edit code. Versions prior to 3.0 did not require this, but the advantage is that your HTML does not need to be polluted with extra script references.
3. Modify or utilize any options. See docs/tutorials/ConfigOptions.md ([ConfigOptions]{@tutorial ConfigOptions}).

ES6 Modules file

1. svg-editor-es.html is an HTML file directly using ES6 modules. It is only supported in the latest browsers. It is probably mostly useful for debugging, as it requires more network requests. If you would like to work with this file, you should make configuration changes in svgedit-config-es.js (in the SVG-Edit project root).
2. If you are working with the ES6 Modules config but also wish to work with the normal svg-editor.html version (so your code can work in older browsers or get the presumable performance benefits of this file which references JavaScript rolled up into a single file), you can follow these steps after any config changes you make, so that your changes can also be automatically made available to both versions.
3. JavaScript: 1. Run npm install within the node_modules/svgedit directory to install the build tools for SVG-edit. 1. Run npm run build-config within the node_modules/svgedit directory.
   1. This will rebuild svgedit-config-iife.js (applying Babel to allow it to work on older browsers and applying Rollup to build all JavaScript into one file). The file will then contain non-ES6 module JavaScript that can work in older browsers. Note that it bundles all of SVGEdit, so it is to be expected that this file will be much larger in size than the original ES6 config file.
4. HTML: 1. If you wish to make changes to both HTML files, it is recommended that you work and test on svg-editor-es.html and then run npm run build-html to have the changes properly copied to svg-editor.html.

Recent news

• 2018-10-24 Published 3.1.0 (Redirect on modular page for non-module-support; versions document (for migrating))
• 2018-10-22 Published 3.0.1 (Revert fix affecting polygon selection)
• 2018-10-21 Published 3.0.0 (misc. improvements including centering canvas and key locale fixes since last RC)
• 2018-09-30 Published 3.0.0-rc.3 with security and other fixes
• 2018-07-31 Published 3.0.0-rc.2 with misc. fixes
• 2018-07-19 Published 3.0.0-rc.1 allowing for extensions and locales to be expressed as modules
• 2018-05-26 Published 3.0.0-alpha.2 with ES6 Modules support
• 2017-07 Added to Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/svg-edit/svgedit
• 2015-12-02 SVG-edit 2.8.1 was released.
• 2015-11-24 SVG-edit 2.8 was released.
• 2015-11-24 Code, issue tracking, and docs are being moved to github (previously code.google.com).
• 2014-04-17 2.7 and stable branches updated to reflect 2.7.1 important bug fixes for the embedded editor.
• 2014-04-07 SVG-edit 2.7 was released.
• 2013-01-15 SVG-edit 2.6 was released.

Videos

• SVG-edit 2.4 Part 1
• SVG-edit 2.4 Part 2
• SVG-edit 2.3 Features
• Introduction to SVG-edit (Version 2.2)

Supported browsers

The following browsers had been tested for 2.6 or earlier and will probably continue to work with 3.0.

• Firefox 1.5+
• Opera 9.50+
• Safari 4+
• Chrome 1+
• IE 9+ and Edge

Further reading and more information

• See docs for more documentation. See the JSDocs for our latest release.
• Acknowledgements lists open source projects used in svg-edit.
• See AUTHORS file for authors.
• StackOverflow group.
• Join the svg-edit mailing list.
• Join us on #svg-edit on freenode.net (or use the web client).

Changelog

3.1.0

• Fix (Embedded editor): (Though cross-origin DOM access of iframes apparently doesn't work now in Chrome or Firefox (which we had been using to disable a button) nor does cross-origin storage access work in Chrome), PDF export has been fixed (we download the PDF to workaround data URI limitations in Chrome) and we avoid opening an extra tab in Chrome PNG export
• Fix (Embedded editor): Avoid using same origin shortcut if there is no global available to use (e.g., if using the modular editor)
• Fix (Embedded editor): Add events only after load is complete and svgCanvas is available; also log blocked error objects
• Fix: Have export handler, if triggered, always open a window even if no window name was given (needed in Chrome to avoid opening an extra window)
• Enhancement: For anyone visiting the ES6 modules entrance file without ESM support, redirect to non-modular version
• Enhancement: For PDF export, switch Chrome by default to "save" outputType
• Enhancement: Add opts object to rasterExport with avoidEvent property to avoid calling the exported event
• Refactoring (canvg): Better type-checking on canvasRGBA_ (but set correctly by default anyways)
• Refactoring: Avoid redundant use of *AttributeNS methods with null value; just use *Attribute methods without namespace
• Refactoring: Display inline styles within a template for readability (until we may refactor as class swapping)
• Refactoring: Line breaks
• Refactoring: Reorder path config to group (non-modular-dependent) image paths together (and correct code comment)
• Docs (CHANGES): clarifications/fixes
• Docs (README): Deemphasize unstable embedded editor fixes
• Docs: Versions section (for migrating)
• Docs: More info on importLocale for extensions
• Docs: Add code comment re: use of extIconsPath in Mathjax
• Docs (JSDoc): Denote optional arguments
• Docs (JSDoc): Add @this to indicate ExtensionInitResponse#callback
• Build: Add comment not to edit xdomain editor directly
• Build: Remove unused Makefile