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A standalone SVG editor?
How about Inkscape? It is:
free and open source,
has a perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing,
can open a number of other vector formats, with the help of extensions,
can ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
As already mentioned I would go with Inkscape if you want a full featured SVG editor with great design capabilities and powerful tools.
If you want something simpler however, are looking for a web ...
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Convert SVG to PDF
Open SVG in browser and print the page to PDF.
Not silent or command line so doesn't meet my requirements
Use cmdlnprint
$ firefox -print "URL"
Addon for Firefox to automate printing ...
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SVG to PNG batch conversion
You can use Inkscape (gratis, available on Linux, Mac, Windows). It has some export command line options, e.g. inkscape in.svg --export-type=png -o out.png -h HEIGHT -w WIDTH .
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SVG search engine
Yes, Google can search for SVG files. Lifehacker agrees.
January 28, 2011
Google Image Search Indexes SVG Files Last year,
Google announced that it started to index SVG files, but the ...
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Tool for sketching overviews with ASCII input
If it's mainly about sequence diagrams, I use JS Sequence Diagrams.
The input is plain text which is nice for version control. The output can have different styles. I love the "hand-drawn" (like xkcd)...
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Inkscape Alternative for Programmatic Manipulation of SVG Using PHP
Yes, this does indeed seem to be a limitation with respect to the PHP DOM library. Much easier to fix on the Inkscape side. Choose to save as "optimized svg"
And then make sure the "style to XML" ...
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Tool for sketching overviews with ASCII input
I have upvoted both of Thomas answers & will be looking into them.
I have done a lot of searching for MSC drawing tools, especially those which take plain text as input. In addition to scripts ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
Any semi-decent vector editing application should fulfil your requisites (except being free). In addition to the already mentioned Inkscape, Gravit Designer is a good choice (you can use it both in ...
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trace PNG with outlines to SVG
Inkscape can do this:
Import the PNG and select it
go to the menu Path / Trace Bitmap
choose Centerline tracing
You can see that it works by setting a different contour color ("set stroke")...
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Free SVG editor better than Inkscape
Is there something better than Inkscape?
It depends what you mean by better. If your main issue with Inkscape is that "it's not intuitive to use and [you] waste time to do simple things", ...
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Convert SVG to PDF
For people who want it to run truly headlessly, i.e. no X server, try wkhtmltopdf (note that Linux distro packages of it are missing some features, so download from their website). It was designed to ...
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Animated SVG image viewer for Linux
The file you've provided opened in animated form in Ubuntu Linux in both Firefox and in Google Chrome.
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Tool for sketching overviews with ASCII input
In order to sketch class diagrams and use case diagrams, I use yUML. I don't like the activity diagrams of the same site.
The input is plain text which is nice for version control. The output can ...
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A Command Line Tool to Simplify SVG Files
Scour is a python tool which removes redundant and spurious data from SVG files and then optimizes them.
Install
If you are on debian you can install it by typing this command:
sudo apt install ...
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An online web tool to export SVG (as raw code) into other image formats
The Website Checker site allows you to simply paste the text of your raw SVG into a box and then preview & download the resulting image as PNG or JPEG.
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Real-time SVG viewer
Both Atom, Brackets and Visual Studio Code plain text editors have a plugin for real time preview of SVG files while being edited.
Atom SVG Preview Package
Brackets SVG Preview
Visual Studio SVG ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
Just use any plain text editor. I use mousepad. SVG is just an XML file with a well defined and stable DTD, analogous to HTML. If you really want to be able to control your images, manually editing ...
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Fast Viewer for Large SVG Files?
When converting a dot file to svg the file becomes larger.
Convert dot to svg via Graphviz
dot -Tsvg filename.dot -o filename.svg
635 kB (dot file) ---> 5,9 MB (svg file)
Maybe you should try ...
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CAD software for creating electro schemes, supporting command line export to SVG
I'd suggest DraftSight for this, as it's open-source, free and very well supported and documented, and has an install base in the millions.
https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-...
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Looking for an engineering-like SVG design software
There is no reason why you can not use SolidWorks or say Autocad for this. Its not often done but possible. I use Maya and Creo all the time to make logos in 2D, i just export the logo in EPS and be ...
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Save or export SVG as CMYK pixel data
As explained in this post you can use Scribus with Inkscape to prepare press ready pdf file.
Scribus is another free, gratis, open source & cross platform program.
The steps are basically:
Find ...
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Dynamic Floor Plans in Web App
Essential Diagram for JavaScript supports manipulating SVG based nodes and serialization.
Example
The whole product is available for free through the community license if you qualify (less than 1 ...
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SVG generator with animations
Google Web Designer might fit your criteria. Failing that look at Inkscape Animation
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Short 2D Animation Video software for HTML5 display
I love Express Animate: http://www.nchsoftware.com/animation/
It can output a Mp4 video, but also export a Html5 version modifying the obects using JavaScript, so you only have the original assets ...
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Short 2D Animation Video software for HTML5 display
Adobe Animate CC (flash) can do exactly this - render vector animation on HTML5 canvas with javascript, but it's 10€/month or so. IMO it's worth the money if you have some income (and if not, internet ...
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SVG viewer for a quick browse through many SVG files
You could use ImageMagick from the command line to view the images or to create a contact sheet like preview of the contents of each directory, with captions such as the file names and you can do so ...
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Testing if a SVG file contains raster graphics
You could modify the program suggested here as follows:
using System;
namespace ExtractBitmapFromSvg
{
static class ExtractBitmapFromSvg
{
static int Main(string[] args)
{
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Software for creating and maintaining a vector icon set
Found my own answer.
Affinity Designer for OS X seems to have all the features needed: Can draw several vectorial icons in a single page and declare many export zones for exporting icons individually ...
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Tool for sketching overviews with ASCII input
Mermaid
Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.
It is a Javascript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and ...
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