Lua scriptable SVG image generator

lsvg is a Lua interpreter specialized to generate SVG images.

It is based on LuaX and uses a pure Lua library to generate SVG images. It optionally requires ImageMagick to make PNG images.

lsvg was initially inspired by svg-lua.

Installation

lsvg is available on Github: https://github.com/CDSoft/lsvg.

lsvg uses LuaX.

$ git clone https://github.com/CDSoft/luax && make -C luax install
$ git clone https://github.com/CDSoft/lsvg
$ cd lsvg
$ make install

If LuaX is not installed yet, the first compilation may take a while…

Usage

Help

$ lsvg

lsvg <Lua scripts> <output files> [-- <other args>]

<Lua scripts>
    Lua script using the svg module
    to build an SVG image in a global variable (img)

<output files>
    Output file names where the image is saved
    (SVG, PNG or PDF)

<other args>
    Arguments given the to input Lua scripts
    through the arg global variable

Example

$ lsvg demo.lua demo.svg -- lsvg demo

This command stores {"lsvg", "demo"} in arg, executes demo.lua and produces demo.svg:

Documentation

No documentation yet. Just read the source code…

• lsvg.lua: main lsvg script
• svg.lua: Lua SVG library
• demo.lua: lsvg example
• SVG specifications: if you’re brave enough…

License

lsvg is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

lsvg is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with lsvg.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further information about lsvg you can visit
http://cdelord.fr/lsvg