SVG drawing application with vector export
- by Bram Jetten
I want to create a drawing application where I can place text and images on a canvas. Those elements also need to be interactively manipulated. Eventually the resulting canvas has to be exported to a vector based PDF. An excellent contender for this functionality would be SVG.
However, this application also needs to be crossbrowser compatible. I've been browsing around for some time now and have seen a couple of solutions available. I found among others RaphaelJS and Google's SVGWeb for working with SVG.
Now for converting those SVG files to a PDF I'm not sure if for instance Batik will offer me what I am looking for.
Also, how would bitmap images be handled when converting the SVG to PDF?