Support export to svg about draw-image-export2

[davidjgraph]

Could the desktop version command line not be used, instead?

[sl-slaing]

@davidjgraph

Could the desktop version command line not be used, instead?

I'm trying to display a SVG image within a webpage, so wouldn't be possible without another service running somewhere.

[Adirelle]

Could the desktop version command line not be used, instead?

Is this possible ? Is the CLI described somewhere ? I'm looking to programmatically convert .drawio files to .svg (or even .png) ones. However I have found little to no document about how to do this.

[alderg]

draw.io --help
Usage: draw [options] [input file/folder]

Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-c, --create creates a new empty file if no file is
passed
-k, --check does not overwrite existing files
-x, --export export the input file/folder based on the
given options
-r, --recursive for a folder input, recursively convert
all files in sub-folders also
-o, --output <output file/folder> specify the output file/folder. If
omitted, the input file name is used for
output with the specified format as
extension
-f, --format if output file name extension is
specified, this option is ignored (file
type is determined from output extension,
possible export formats are pdf, png, jpg,
svg, vsdx) (default: "pdf")
-q, --quality output image quality for JPEG (default:
90)
-t, --transparent set transparent background for PNG
-e, --embed-diagram includes a copy of the diagram (for PNG
format only)
-b, --border sets the border width around the diagram
(default: 0)
-s, --scale scales the diagram size
--width fits the generated image/pdf into the
specified width, preserves aspect ratio.
--height fits the generated image/pdf into the
specified height, preserves aspect ratio.
--crop crops PDF to diagram size
-a, --all-pages export all pages (for PDF format only)
-p, --page-index selects a specific page, if not specified
and the format is an image, the first page
is selected
-g, --page-range .. selects a page range (for PDF format only)
-h, --help display help for command

[Adirelle]

Thank you. Is there a way do it using node only instead of the full electron build ?

[tomkludy]

FYI - I have built a docker container that exposes drawio Desktop (including the SVG export capability) as a RESTful API:

https://hub.docker.com/r/tomkludy/drawio-renderer

Hopefully this can be of help to others; it is already functioning in my own build pipeline.

[davidjgraph]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, we're not going to implement this. The problem we've been seeing with feature that we implement but don't actively use is the code just rots and breaks. @tomkludy 's solution looks like a good workaround.