/svgl

Render SVG graphics with OpenGL (library)

Primary LanguageC++GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1LGPL-2.1

SVGL is a library that displays SVG documents using OpenGL.

It is a direct SVG-to-OpenGL rendering engine written in C++.

The absence of an intermediate raster step makes it very performant.

Authors and licensing

Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Stephane Conversy conversy@enac.fr, http://www.tls.cena.fr/~conversy

Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Jean-Daniel Fekete fekete@inria.fr, http://www.lri.fr/~conversy

  • see license.txt for the GNU LGPL license
  • see docs/agglicense.txt for agg license

Building and installation

building

A build script for Unix/Linux is available in build/build.sh; simply execute it after unpacking.

The following software needs to be installed for the build process:

  • a C++ compiler, for example g++ or clang
  • autoconf
  • xutils
  • automake
  • libtool
  • libexpat1
  • libpng12
  • pkg-config

testing

After compiling, you can test the library with the tests available in demos/tutorial, for example

$ demos/tutorial/00simplest

Many of the tests require you to set the GLFT_FONTDIR variable to a dir containing compatible TrueType font files.

For example, in a Debian system with ttf-liberation installed:

$ env GLFT_FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/ demos/tutorial/05text

installation

$ make install

See docs/INSTALL for further explanations

documentation

See docs/* files.

History

Part of svgl was developed during SC's post-doc period at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes (http://www.emn.fr) from October 2000 to September 2001.

Stephane Conversy is now at Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile and Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne, Toulouse, France

Jean-Daniel Fekete is now at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Universite Paris-Sud an INRIA, Orsay, France

The software was further developed until 2004.

In 2013 Michele Bini tweaked the code for modern Unix/Linux systems and modern C++ compilers and published the update on GitHub.

Contributors

Important contributions were made by: