Re: SVG libraries

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 09/08/2010 07:48, Stuart P. Bentley wrote:
> I've been thinking about Processing
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_(programming_language)) lately
> and how it could be reimplemented with Lua

Interesting idea!

> but I've hit a stumbling
> block with the example given on the Wikipedia page: is there any library
> in Lua that allows for SVG manipulation like that?

Note that Processing uses a quite primitive XML library (Sax style, from 
NanoXML IIRC), eg. understanding only UTF-8 data (ignoring encoding 
instructions).
Its native SVG library is also very primitive (by design: to keep it 
small), mostly understanding shapes, some styles, gradients, etc. Its 
main purpose is to import graphics from Illustrator (and, with flaws, 
Inkscape), not to support "advanced" concepts like text support, 
clipping, animation or such.

So, rewriting such support from scratch isn't impossible, not even 
really hard... Of course, nothing prevents you from giving a better 
support! Note that some libraries for Processing like Geomerative offers 
a better SVG support, for example (perhaps based on Batik?).

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