README.markdown

d3 export demo

This is a proof-of-concept demo for saving d3js graphics as PDF/PNG/SVG files.

Objective

CGI takes incoming SVG serialization. Use graphics toolkit to open SVG serialization as input, output PNG or PDF as output.

This perl implementation just performs a system call on rsvg-convert, nothing specific to perl.

Options

• librsvg
• imagemagick http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15119679/converting-an-svg-with-imagemagick
• batik

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4809194/convert-svg-image-to-png-with-php for another nice overview. We just run rsvg-convert man rsvg

• http://superuser.com/questions/381125/how-do-i-convert-an-svg-to-a-pdf-on-linux

Implementation

See here for more details: * https://github.com/agordon/d3export_demo

See here for online demo: http://d3export.housegordon.org/

Implementation in other languages

Several people have implemented the CGI portion in other languages:

• NodeJS: https://github.com/gabhi/d3export_demo
• Python/Flask: https://github.com/mgymrek/pybamview/commit/c26de4dde7316d557ccbe9ee4159525950898bea#diff-070773797d6114c159703d8a18c749a2

License

Copyright (C) 2012,2014 by A. Gordon ([email protected])

All code written by me is released under BSD license: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause (also uses several other libraries that have their own licenses).