Can you get the SVG text rather than PNG bytes? #164
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Is it possible to get the SVG text of the canvas context? Wouldn't that be better to use for display rather than the PNG? |
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It is not possible. Unfortunately, this is not part of the web 2D canvas API, so it might be difficult to implement this in a non-hacky way. The drawSVG library is a great library that might be better suited for this purpose. It might be possible for ipycanvas to play nicely with drawSvg, to have a bridge from one to the other. |
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Interesting... I didn't realize that the canvas couldn't provide itself as SVG. Ironic! I wrote a hacky SVG backend based on svgwrite. I didn't know about drawSVG; I'lll look at that. Thanks again! |
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It is not possible. Unfortunately, this is not part of the web 2D canvas API, so it might be difficult to implement this in a non-hacky way.
The drawSVG library is a great library that might be better suited for this purpose.
It might be possible for ipycanvas to play nicely with drawSvg, to have a bridge from one to the other.