Write SVG file

[paolofulgoni]

I'd like to use the EquinoxLabs.SVGSharpie library to create SVG documents programmatically and save them to disk.
I'm afraid this isn't a use case that you considered. For example I couldn't find methods to write an SvgDocument to file.
Do you think that this feature could be added? Or is it out of scope?

[UkooLabs]

@paolofulgoni I’m sure it can be added, I found an issue with the rendering using image sharp (due to winding rule support). How ever this has now been fixed but not had chance to update library as of yet.

[paolofulgoni]

I'm afraid my question wasn't very clear. What I'd like to do is to create the XML file, not a rendered image.

To give you a bit more context, I'm currently using another library to do that job, but unfortunately it's not fully cross-platform because of the System.Drawing dependency. Therefore some people are thinking about rewriting a part of the library, more details here: svg-net/SVG#590.
Your library caught my attention as the base NuGet package EquinoxLabs.SVGSharpie doesn't have such dependencies.

[rafntor]

@paolofulgoni Have you checked out NGraphics ?

[paolofulgoni]

@rafntor thanks for the suggestion! I took a quick look at it, looks interesting
Nevertheless it seems to me that SVG is just an import/export feature, whereas I need the ability to manipulate every single bit of the SVG document (e.g. element IDs, CSS classes, etc)

[rafntor]

Import/export yes, but also more - this little example creates from scratch & saves SVG (including custom 'ID')

void make_svg()
{
   var graphic = new NGraphics.Graphic(new NGraphics.Size(100));
   
   graphic.Children.Add(new NGraphics.Rectangle( // add blue rectangle
      new NGraphics.Rect(graphic.Size), NGraphics.Size.Zero, NGraphics.Pens.Black, NGraphics.Brushes.Blue));

   graphic.Children.Add(new NGraphics.Ellipse( // add yellow circle
      new NGraphics.Rect(10, 10, 30, 30), null, NGraphics.Brushes.Yellow));

   graphic.Children[0].Id = "Custom-Element-Id"; // set custom element-id

   using (var file = System.IO.File.CreateText(@"c:\temp\moon.svg"))
   {
      var writer = new NGraphics.SvgWriter(graphic, file);

      writer.Write();
   }
}

View/inspect the result in Edge gives ;

(Sorry team SVGSharpie @UkooLabs for 'polluting' your space, just thought the request was a good match for the lib I have looked a little bit into)

[paolofulgoni]

Thanks again @rafntor, I'll take a closer look!
@UkooLabs the original request is still valid anyway ;-)