Displaying SVG as an ImageLayer - OpenLayers - svg

As flagged in the following GitHub issues, OpenLayers do not display SVG images properly when referenced in an ImageLayer:
https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues/4633
There was a solution to this implemented a few months ago, using the "render" property in the Layer class:
https://openlayers.org/en/master/apidoc/module-ol_layer_Layer.html#~RenderFunction
But i cannot figure out how to implement this correctly. What is the frame state, and how can this be referenced correctly to the render property?

The devs behind OpenLayers have created an example to show how an SVG image can be rendered:
https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/10363

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How to draw custom shapes with draw2d?

I am using draw2d javascript library for drawing predefined shapes and custom shapes in it's canvas.
As I don't have any example made yet, I am trying to copy from it's documentation but doesn't seem to find a good way to research it as it contains a whole lot of it.
Here is the circle example.
http://www.draw2d.org/draw2d_touch/jsdoc_6/#!/api/draw2d.shape.basic.Circle
and here are some more documentation with examples.
http://www.draw2d.org/draw2d_touch/jsdoc_6/
I have premade shapes with html and css and I am trying to drag and drop and render them on canvas like these in this image. Also when dropped, they should have input and output ports too.
Is it possible to convert this html/css to draw2d shapes?
So here this is made possible via extending draw2d's SVGFigure and thus we have ability to provide custom svg to render it as a custom shape.
Below links were useful in this context.
http://www.draw2d.org/draw2d_touch/jsdoc/#!/guide/extending_svg_figure-section-live-example
https://github.com/freegroup/draw2d/tree/master/examples/shape_custom_svg
http://www.draw2d.org/draw2d_touch/jsdoc_6/#!/api/draw2d.SetFigure
https://github.com/freegroup/draw2d/tree/master/examples/shape_labeld
https://github.com/freegroup/draw2d/tree/master/examples/shape_custom_markdown

Vue.js rendering of SVG fragment fails in IE11

I need to fetch a lot of SVG documents from AWS and I use vue.js to render the content of the SVG. This works fine in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari but fails without errors in IE11.
I have created jsFiddle to illustrate my issue: https://jsfiddle.net/dotnetCarpenter/pp7bcLkk/
The raw SVG file can be viewed here and is rendered in IE11: https://napp-siesta-test.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/siesta-demo-mwqxbrqx/uploads/1506688653629/viewer/472.svg
Since I need to set v-show and class on the SVG, I have a <svg> container in my template that I add the SVG string to via v-html.
I strip the <svg> element from the received SVG document and also resolve the relative paths to fonts, since I'm in-lining the SVG.
As discussed in this issue v-html uses innerHTML which has no effect on SVG element in IE.
Luckily in VueJS 2.6 there was a workaround added.
So for you there are two possible fixes: upgrade VueJS version or use custom render function and construct VNodes for SVG content manually.

Angular2 does not render SVG in runtime

I am trying to render SVG graphics in run-time with no success. Only works if i put the SVG code inside the component's template.
I have tried it using the ComponentFactoryResolver and the ViewContainerRef's method createComponent. After that, the Renderer class (i'm trying to not use the nativeElement due the recommendations from Angular team), adding the namespace before the tagname: <svg:rect> and the selector property selector: ':svg:g[svg-box]'...
I am using Angular 2.0.0-rc.5. You can check it here https://plnkr.co/edit/HsqyQgFGwiIVVJIPu31k?p=preview
In both cases the generated HTML code is correct but it doesn't render anything.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
Finally i got it!!
Using the Renderer class, when we create SVG elements we have to add the following before the element's tag: :svg:tag. In my case:
this.SVGRenderer.createElement(this.parent.nativeElement, ":svg:rect");
You can check it in this plunker's version 3: https://plnkr.co/edit/HsqyQgFGwiIVVJIPu31k?p=preview
Now i'm trying to do the same using the ComponentFactoryResolver and the ViewContainerRef's method createComponent approach.

Can html2canvas render svg in a page?

I am using html2canvas to create a 'screenshot' of a HTML page that contains SVG.
Everything looks good, except the element.
I know that it should be possible to render SVG in Canvas; PhantomJS, fabric.js and CanVG do it.
Is this something that html2canvas does not support? Or am I doing something wrong, and this should just work?
If this has not been implemented, what is the best way to extend html2canvas (using canvg)?
Capturing SVG images works by transforming them into canvas, using canvg. Include both javascript files as indicated on that page. Then the easiest way to do this is:
<body onload="canvg()">
See the parameterless call example.
When all SVG images have been converted, html2canvas works flawlessly.
Of course, all SVG images will be converted to canvases, but I did not see a difference.

SVG with external images doesn't load them when embedded with <img> tag in browsers

I made the following observation:
If I create an svg image that references an external raster image via xlink:href and try to load the svg in browsers, the external images are only shown if I use the <object> tag, but not when using the <img> tag.
Rendering with the <object> tag is quite slow and not as clean as using the img tag for images so I was wondering if there's a way to make it work through the <img> tag.
At first I thought it doesn't work because of a same origin policy, but even if the referenced image is in the same directory and I reference it through its name only, it wont load.
Any ideas?
Are you using IE? IE doesnt recognize SVG anyway. Microsoft is always ten years behind, yet they are more popular and far more costly, for some reason. Name brand propaganda?
SVG loads in Firefox. Both as an XML document referenced directly in the URL, and also if you embed it into an XHTML (fully XML compliant) document with proper namespacing, the SVG should render properly. The great thing about this option is that DHTML can manipulate your SVG. Everything I said in this paragraph also applies to MathML, if youre curious.
Aside from that, SVG doesn't load from an image tag. I do believe Firefox is working on this upgrade, though. Im not entirely sure.
Using the object or embed tag is reasonable, I suppose... but one of my earlier fixes was to use an iframe. Embed an iframe in your html that references the complete SVG file. Using CSS you can make the iframe look flush with the rest of your document, appearing and acting like an image. Encased in a div or span tag, you can have onhover and onclick event handlers.
Using the image tag, your src can be a PHP file on server side. If properly coded and with the appropriate cgi apps, you can rasterize your SVG on server-side, and have that PNG data sent back to your image via the PHP src.
There's no particular reason <object> should be any slower to load than <img> apart from possibly the interaction aspect (img's are static while object's are fully interactive documents). The images inside the svg should load in both scenarios, so it sounds like a bug in the browser.
Could you post a link to your example?
I think you are at least 10 months behind...IE9 supports SVG, and pre-release versions (including a beta) have been out for quite a while. Check out www.ietestdrive.com to grab the platform preview - it's pretty good. In my opinion, parts of their SVG support are much better than Firefox currently (but they don't support SMIL yet).

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