svgedit/README.md

# ![alt text](https://svg-edit.github.io/svgedit/images/logo48x48.svg "svg-edit logo of a pencil") SVG-edit

SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor that
works in any modern browser.

## Demo

### [Try SVG-edit here](https://svg-edit.github.io/svgedit/releases/latest/editor/svg-editor.html)

(Also available as a download in [releases](https://github.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit/releases)).

You may also try the [pre-release](https://svg-edit.github.io/svgedit/releases/latest/editor/svg-editor.html) (or its [ES6-Module](https://svg-edit.github.io/svgedit/releases/latest/editor/svg-editor.html) version, assuming a modern browser).

## Installation

### Quick install

1. Clone or copy the repository contents (at least the `editor` directory).
1. If you need programmatic customization, see its section below.
1. Otherwise, just add an iframe to your site, adding any extensions or
  configuration (see `docs/tutorials/ConfigOptions.md`
  ([ConfigOptions]{@tutorial ConfigOptions})) within the URL:
```html
<iframe src="svgedit/editor/svg-editor.html?extensions=" width="100%" height="100%"></iframe>
```

### Integrating SVG-edit into your own npm package

These steps are only needed if you wish to set up your own npm package
incorporating SVGEdit.

1. Create your npm package: `npm init` (complete the fields).
1. Install SVG-edit into your package:
  `npm i svgedit`.
1. Look within `node_modules/svgedit/`, e.g., `node_modules/svgedit/editor/svg-editor.html`
  for the files your package needs and use accordingly.
1. `npm publish`

## Programmatic customization

1. If you are not concerned about supporting ES6 Modules (see the
  "ES6 Modules file" section), you can add your config directly to
  `svgedit-config-iife.js` within the SVG-Edit project root.
  1. Note: Do not remove the `import svgEditor...` code which is responsible for
  importing the SVG edit code. Versions prior to 3.0 did not require this,
  but the advantage is that your HTML does not need to be polluted with
  extra script references.
1. Modify or utilize any options. See `docs/tutorials/ConfigOptions.md`
  ([ConfigOptions]{@tutorial ConfigOptions}).

## ES6 Modules file

1. `svg-editor-es.html` is an HTML file directly using ES6 modules.
  It is only supported in the latest browsers. It is probably mostly
  useful for debugging, as it requires more network requests.
  If you would like to work with this file, you should make configuration
  changes in `svgedit-config-es.js` (in the SVG-Edit project root).
1. If you are working with the ES6 Modules config but also wish to work with
  the normal `svg-editor.html` version (so your code can work in older
  browsers or get the presumable performance benefits of this file which
  references JavaScript rolled up into a single file), you can follow these
  steps after any config changes you make, so that your changes can also be
  automatically made available to both versions.
  1. JavaScript:
    1. Run `npm install` within the `node_modules/svgedit` directory to
      install the build tools for SVG-edit.
    1. Run `npm run build-config` within the `node_modules/svgedit` directory.
      1. This will rebuild `svgedit-config-iife.js` (applying Babel to allow
        it to work on older browsers and applying Rollup to build all
        JavaScript into one file). The file will then contain non-ES6 module
        JavaScript that can work in older browsers. Note that it bundles all
        of SVGEdit, so it is to be expected that this file will be much larger
        in size than the original ES6 config file.
  1. HTML:
    1. If you wish to make changes to both HTML files, it is recommended that you
      work and test on `svg-editor-es.html` and then run `npm run build-html`
      to have the changes properly copied to `svg-editor.html`.

## Recent news
  * 2018-05-26 Published 3.0.0-alpha.2 with ES6 Modules support
  * 2017-07 Added to Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/svg-edit/svgedit
  * 2015-12-02 SVG-edit 2.8.1 was released.
  * 2015-11-24 SVG-edit 2.8 was released.
  * 2015-11-24 Code, issue tracking, and docs are being moved to github (previously [code.google.com](https://code.google.com/p/svg-edit)).
  * 2014-04-17 2.7 and stable branches updated to reflect 2.7.1 important bug fixes for the embedded editor.
  * 2014-04-07 SVG-edit 2.7 was released.
  * 2013-01-15 SVG-edit 2.6 was released.

## Videos

  * [SVG-edit 2.4 Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpC7b1ZJvvM)
  * [SVG-edit 2.4 Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDzZEoGUDe8)
  * [SVG-edit 2.3 Features](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVIcIy5fXOc)
  * [Introduction to SVG-edit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKmEI06YiY) (Version 2.2)

## Supported browsers

The following browsers had been tested for 2.6 or earlier and will probably continue to work with 3.0.

- Firefox 1.5+
- Opera 9.50+
- Safari 4+
- Chrome 1+
- IE 9+ and Edge

## Further reading and more information

 * See [docs](docs/) for more documentation. See the [JSDocs for our latest release](https://svg-edit.github.io/svgedit/releases/latest/docs/jsdoc/index.html).
 * [Acknowledgements](docs/Acknowledgements.md) lists open source projects used in svg-edit.
 * See [AUTHORS](AUTHORS) file for authors.
 * [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/svg-edit) group.
 * Join the [svg-edit mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/svg-edit).
 * Join us on `#svg-edit` on `freenode.net` (or use the [web client](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=svg-edit)).