SVG or other vector graphics editor

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An interactive vector graphics editor accessible from the Sage notebook or the command-line may have a variety of uses:

• Drawing diagrams.
• Annotating images. See matplotlib's SVG backend.
• Manipulating graphs and knots.
• Animating objects. See SMIL.
• Creating a free-form 2D workspace.

Candidates:

• jsvectoreditor - Raphael-based editor renders both SVG (non-IE) and VML (IE).
• SVG-edit - Inkscape-lite. See this discussion and this one on matplotlib's SVG.

See sage-devel for some discussion.

CC: @sagetrac-acleone

Component: interfaces: optional

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/6973

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 Candidates:

-* [SVG-edit](http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/) - seems very promising; actively developed.
+* [SVG-edit](http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/) - seems very promising; actively developed; see [this discussion](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-edit/browse_thread/thread/26bdc43b4f241ae9/77768c078a98b30d?#77768c078a98b30d).
 * [SVG web](http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/) - can render SVG via Flash for IE; actively developed.

 See [sage-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/86429406fb3bba17/dd3163cb2a47fa38?#dd3163cb2a47fa38) for some discussion.

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 Candidates:

-* [SVG-edit](http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/) - seems very promising; actively developed; see [this discussion](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-edit/browse_thread/thread/26bdc43b4f241ae9/77768c078a98b30d?#77768c078a98b30d).
-* [SVG web](http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/) - can render SVG via Flash for IE; actively developed.
+* [jsvectoreditor](http://code.google.com/p/jsvectoreditor/) - [Raphael](http://raphaeljs.com/)-based editor renders both SVG (non-IE) and VML (IE).
+* [SVG-edit](http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/) - Inkscape-lite.  See [this discussion](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-edit/browse_thread/thread/26bdc43b4f241ae9/77768c078a98b30d?#77768c078a98b30d) and [this one on matplotlib's SVG](http://groups.google.com/group/svg-edit/browse_thread/thread/91cf3b76f3e4eb4f/77237f209dbe1a81?#77237f209dbe1a81).

 See [sage-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/86429406fb3bba17/dd3163cb2a47fa38?#dd3163cb2a47fa38) for some discussion.

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comment:2

Hi Alex - Feel free to take this in any direction you think is worthwhile!

[fchapoton]

comment:5

Some time has passed and nothing happened. Maybe we can now close this as out of topic ?

[videlec]

comment:6

Why?!

[fchapoton]

comment:7

What do you mean ? Do you agree or disagree with me ?

If somebody wants to edit an SVG file, she can use any existing SVG editor. I do not see why sage should provide such an editor. Do we aim to replace every single software around ? Has this anything to do with mathematics ?

[videlec]

comment:8

"Manipulating graphs and knots" is mostly being something that we want in Sage... isn't it?

[f29946bc-ee7b-48cd-9abc-3445948c551d]

comment:9

At least I would like to have a digraph editor, just like we now have for undirected graphs. Maybe an option to it?

[embray]

comment:10

It seems there are at least some valid use cases, e.g. for graphical notebook widgets for objects in Sage (something which is actively being explored).

I don't know that there's necessarily a case within that for editing arbitrary SVG graphics, though I don't think there'd much case to be made for this outside the context of a notebook widget (anything beyond that is maybe too complicated...)