Introduction
SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, Javascript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser:
- Firefox 1.5+
- Opera 9.50+
- Safari 4+
- Chrome 1+
- IE 6+ (with the Chrome Frame plugin)
This editor depends on many other open-source projects. See Acknowledgements for details.
Demos
Try out SVG-edit 2.4, the latest stable release (Release notes).
For the adventurous ones, feel free to try out the trunk build, codenamed Bicorn (not guaranteed to be stable).
Features
SVG-edit is an online vector graphics editor that uses only JS, HTML, CSS and SVG (i.e. no server-side functionality). SVG-edit has the following features:
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SVG-edit works directly in the browser, but there are several side projects: A Firefox Add-on, an Opera Widget, a Google Wave Gadget.
Videos / Screencasts
- SVG-edit 2.4 Part 1
- SVG-edit 2.4 Part 2
- SVG-edit 2.3 Features
- Introduction to SVG-edit (Version 2.2)
Examples
Development/Discussion
Please join us on the #svg-edit channel at Freenode IRC (logs).
If you have done some HTML/JS/CSS programming before, look at this list of good first bugs and submit a patch.
We have started to document the developer API here: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/index.html
We have started to gather some unit tests for SVG-edit here: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/test1.html
Further Reading
Projects That Use SVG-edit
- This editor is used in Project Eduvid
- MoinMoin Extension
- SVG-edit is the drawing component of WISE 4.0
- As a 3rd-party resource in Yanel
- XWiki 2.x (via macro)
- Integrating SVG-edit with TiddlyWiki