Hello, I am creating a website for my company that creates vinyl banners and signs. I would like to use a web based image editor for visitors to create their own designs and the designs be sent as a vector image to me to be able to blow them up to the size of the banner. I am having an extremely hard time finding such a program... would I be able to use Inkscape for this? If not, does anyone know where I can find one?

Thank You

I doubt that Inkscape would be the best option for your goals - it does have a command line interface, but the current API is very limited AFAIK. You might want to consider SVG-edit, a web based SVG editor.

SVG-edit is a lightweight, web-based, Javascript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser
[…] an online vector graphics editor that uses only JS, HTML, CSS and SVG (i.e. no server-side functionality) […]

There is an online demo available.

hth, ~suv

~suv wrote:I doubt that Inkscape would be the best option for your goals - it does have a command line interface, but the current API is very limited AFAIK. You might want to consider SVG-edit, a web based SVG editor.

SVG-edit is a lightweight, web-based, Javascript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser
[…] an online vector graphics editor that uses only JS, HTML, CSS and SVG (i.e. no server-side functionality) […]

There is an online demo available.

hth, ~suv

Hi, ~suv

Thanks for nice online demo link of SVG-edit v2.2. I have just tried it but when I clicked on the 'save image' button. It always pop up something like this 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBzdGFuZGFsb25lPSJubyI/Pgo8c3Zn...' and about 755 characters long. Would you please tell me how could I save my images?

I use FF3.5 with Tab mix plus add-on on XP.

Beat regards,

AFAIR I selected 'view source' in the browser, copied the source into a new text document and saved it as SVG file (like 'svgedit-onlinedemo-test.svg').

Hi there!

The "Save" button opens a new tab using a data: URL. You can then save this web page as an SVG file to your hard drive.

SVG-edit 2.3 is now in Beta: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... ditor.html It now includes a mini-source editor, so clicking on the Source button and copy the text directly to a text editor and save it is another way.

Regards,
Jeff

Thank you for the update! I knew I had seen a source code window button before, but could not find it in the official demo nor the current 'trunk' version URL in my browser history ;-)

~suv

If you are looking for a 100% javascript based comprehensive vector image editor, with no hassles, then try out Chittram - http://www.chittram.com