Comments on: Embed an SVG Editor in Your Web Page

By: Harvie

Harvie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:07:46 +0000

Thanks for your help
I have created PoC SVG-Edit DokuWiki plugin:
http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:svg_edit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-QW6a1ZFHA

By: Harvie

Harvie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:40:29 +0000

Jeff: I’ve been sneaking around a while and i’ve found that possible problem is in embedapi.js and btw it’s possible to get data from/to iframe or popup using messages…

the bug is described here (last comment):
http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/issues/detail?id=494

By: Harvie

Harvie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:02:23 +0000

Jeff: thanks for the tip!
i’ve also found this:
http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/tags/stable/editor/embedapi.js
this should do the thing, but i can’t get it to work…
maybe i will really need to embed whole editor

there should be some more simple way…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:54:40 +0000

Harvie: There are a variety of options.

You can initialize the SVG document by supplying it in the URL as an argument, but wouldn’t be able to get it out of the iframe.

I think you probably need to use an approach similar to what other wiki/cms folk are doing with SVG-edit: Embed the editor directly in the page in a div and then use SvgCanvas.setSvgString() and provide your own save handler. Here’s a good example.

Please join the mailing list and we can give you further details.

By: Harvie

Harvie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:30:26 +0000

Hello. Cool software!
I have small question… once i have svg-edit embedded in iframe, can i send svg code to this iframe using javascript from parent site? can i obtain edited svg code back when i will need it?

thanks ;o)

By: Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:06:18 +0000

Sorry Jeff, I didn’t refresh this window before making my last post. I am going to read those issue posts and leave some thoughts there.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:54:28 +0000

@Adrian: Yes, importing an arbitrary number of SVG images into your current existing drawing is what I'm talking about. Please follow:

By: Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:51:50 +0000

I just found your 2.5 pre-alpha. This looks great, although I am wondering if you are considering adding the ability to “import” more than one image onto the canvas, rather than “opening”, which starts a new canvas? If you could incorporate that, then perhaps I could interact with the import feature and load my illustrations via a series of palettes containing my illustrations.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:31:14 +0000

@Adrian: We are actually working on importing SVG for the next version of SVG-edit (codenamed Bicorn). A first release of this functionality will probably just be ’select the file you want to import’, but that will over time be improved.

By: Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:24:09 +0000

This is fantastic. What I am wondering is whether you have considered allowing importing of SVGs from file – like the embed link functionality.

We have an online image library which currently contains about 1000 SVG illustrations (and we currently have about 1500 more to upload) and I am looking for a way to allow users to combine these illustrations in their browser. Ideally I love to be able to provide something resembling the Adobe Illustrator symbol palette functionality with your editor by linking to the SVGs in our image library.