Is there a way to quickly convery SVG to Vips Image?

[severian1778]

This is very important for data viz for example when creating images in contex of Ggity. I cannot find a simple function to wrap around a n svg and compose it w.r.t a VIPS image. For instance in imagemagick we have:

convert -size 1024x1024 test.svg test.png

[kipcole9]

Absolutely possible. Just Image.open("<svg ......"). I need to add that to the docs for sure. Let me know if you have any issues though.

[severian1778]

Ah cheers m8, yah, apologies for my question as its so trivial. If you add it to the docs its much more clear for sure.

[kipcole9]

Nothing to apologise for - its not noted in the docs so that's on me. BTW, under the covers the Image.Shape and the various masking functions all use SVG to describe the shape or mask. And the conversion is very quick (it uses libsvg)

[kipcole9]

@severian1778, Arrrrghhh, my mistake. It's Image.from_binary/2 (not Image.open/2) for SVG. I have added it to Image.open/2 though for the next release and added some additional documentation.