How to save svg canvas to local filesystem

Question

Is there a way to allow a user, after he has created a vector graph on a javascript svg canvas using a browser, to download this file to their local filesystem?

SVG

Answer 1

Using FileSaver.js

saveAs(new Blob([SVG_DATA_HERE], {type:"application/svg+xml"}), "name.svg")

Answer 2

I made a clean/usable bookmarklet out of the suggestions.

It will put a unique link next to every inline <svg> on the page.

https://codepen.io/corysimmons/pen/vybzqV

Hope it helps someone.

Answer 3

It might be possible using the regular "Save" browser command, but it won't just save the SVG canvas, it will save the whole page.

I believe your best bet is to use AJAX and send the whole SVG XML data as POST data to a server script, and have that script just send back the POST data with the header Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=yourfile.svg.

(Under PHP, you can get the raw POST contents with file_get_contents('php://input').)

Answer 4

$(document).ready(function(){	
 $("#btnDownload").click(function(){
	var $container = $('#svg-container'),
     // Canvg requires trimmed content
    content = $container.html().trim(),
    canvas = document.getElementById('svg-canvas');
	
	// Draw svg on canvas
    canvg(canvas, content);
	$container.hide();
    // Change img be SVG representation
    var theImage = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg');
	
	var a = document.createElement('a');
	a.href = theImage; // xhr.response es un blob file
	a.target = '_blank';
	a.download = 'prueba'; // nombre del archivo.
	a.style.display = 'none';
	document.body.appendChild(a);
	a.click();
	delete a;
});//fin function
});// fin 	

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