Working with SVG

The L_SvgNodeHandle type represents a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) object. LEADTOOLS supports versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the SVG specification.

You can use any of the following methods to obtain an SVG document:

• Load directly from an SVG file or stream using L_SvgLoadDocument.
• Use L_LoadSvg. This function can convert a variety of document types (such as PDF, Office formats, Text, RTF and many more) and vector types (such as DXF and DWG) as well as SVG itself to an L_SvgNodeHandle.
• Recognize any document using the LEADTOOLS OCR engine and save the result as SVG pages using L_OcrDocument_Save with the DOCUMENTFORMAT_SVG format.
• After you have an L_SvgNodeHandle object, you can perform the following tasks:
  • Save it to a disk file or memory using L_SvgSaveDocument or L_SvgSaveDocumentMemory.
  • Get and set information about the document bounds and resolution using L_SvgIsFlatDocument, L_SvgFlatDocument, L_SvgCalculateBounds and L_SvgGetBounds.
  • Render the SVG document to a target device using L_SvgRenderDocument. Refer to SVG Rendering for more information.
  • Enumerate and parse the text elements in the document using L_SvgSortElements.
  • Use the SVG document as the data for a page when creating documents using Document Writers and DocumentSvgPage.