SVG++ documentation¶
About¶
SVG++ library can be thought of as a framework, containing parsers for various SVG syntaxes, adapters that simplify handling of parsed data and a lot of other utilities and helpers for the most common tasks. Take a look at Tutorial to get the idea about what it is. Library sources available at https://github.com/svgpp/svgpp.
SVG++ features
- Is a header-only library
- Can be used with any XML parser
- Compile time configured - no virtual functions
- Minimal runtime overhead - you pay only for what you get
- Has wide range of possible uses:
- Fully functional, conforming SVG viewers
- Simple in-app SVG rasterizers
- Import modules of vector editing software
- Implementing path-only input of SVG format with minimal efforts in any graphics or math software
- Requires only Boost library itself (demo, tests and sample have their own requirements)
- Compatible with C++03, but requires conforming implementation, due to heavy usage of templates
- Supports any character type (char and wchar_t). Other (Unicode from C++11) were not tested, but should be ok.
SVG 1.1 features covered by SVG++
- Path data - parsing, simplification
- Transform list - parsing, simplification
- Color, including ICC color - parsing
- Lengths - highly configurable handling of SVG lengths, full support of all SVG length units
- Basic shapes - optional conversion to path
- Style attribute - parsing, taking in account differences in parsing presentation attributes and style properties
- Automatic marker positions calculation
- Viewport and viewbox handling
SVG++ is NOT
- An SVG viewer or library that produces raster image from SVG (though C++ demo app included, which renders SVG with AGG, GDI+ or Skia graphics library)
- Renders anything itself
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