`html2svg`

Convert HTML and <canvas> to SVG or PDF using Chromium. Read the blog post.

Usage

# export to SVG
$ docker run fathyb/html2svg https://google.com > google.svg
$ docker run fathyb/html2svg https://google.com --format svg > google.svg
# export to PDF
$ docker run fathyb/html2svg https://google.com --format pdf > google.pdf
# show help
$ docker run fathyb/html2svg --help
Usage: html2svg [options] <url>

Arguments:
  url                    URL to the web page to render

Options:
  -f, --full             capture the entire page
  -w, --wait <seconds>   set the amount of seconds to wait between the page loaded event and taking the screenshot (default: 1)
  -w, --width <width>    set the viewport width in pixels (default: 1920)
  -h, --height <height>  set the viewport height in pixels (default: 1080)
  -f, --format <format>  set the output format, should one of these values: svg, pdf (default: "svg")
  --help                 display help for command

Development

Building Chromium is only officially supported on AMD64. If you'd like to target ARM64, cross-compile from AMD64 instead.

Local

You'll need to install all tools required to build Chromium: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code/

If you're running Linux, you can use the Docker build instructions to generate binaries.

Fetch dependencies:
```
$ yarn
```
Clone Electron.js and Chromium using gclient:
```
$ yarn gclient
```

Configure the build system using gn using one of these commands:

# for local developement
$ yarn gn testing
# or for releasing
$ yarn gn release
# add --ide=xcode if you'd like to generate an Xcode project on macOS
$ yarn gn release --ide=xcode

Build using ninja using one of these commands:

# make a testing build
$ yarn ninja testing
# make a release build
$ yarn ninja release

Docker

We use docker run instead of Dockerfile for building Chromium to support incremental building.

# Create the build environment
$ docker build . --build-arg "WORKDIR=$(pwd)" --target build-env --tag html2svg-build-env
# Clone the Chromium/Electron code
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env scripts/gclient.sh --revision "src/electron@cb22573c3e76e09df9fbad36dc372080c04d349e"
# Apply html2svg patches
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env scripts/patch.sh
# Install build dependencies
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env electron/src/build/install-build-deps.sh

Now you'll have to build binaries, steps differs depending on the platform you'd like to target:

AMD64:

# Fetch compiler files
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env electron/src/build/linux/sysroot_scripts/install-sysroot.py --arch=amd64
# Generate build files
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) --workdir $(pwd)/electron/src html2svg-build-env gn gen "out/release-amd64" --args="import(\"//electron/build/args/release.gn\") cc_wrapper=\"ccache\""
# Build binaries
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env scripts/build.sh release-amd64

ARM64:

# Fetch compiler files
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env electron/src/build/linux/sysroot_scripts/install-sysroot.py --arch=arm64
# Generate build files
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) --workdir $(pwd)/electron/src html2svg-build-env gn gen "out/release-arm64" --args="import(\"//electron/build/args/release.gn\") cc_wrapper=\"ccache\" target_cpu=\"arm64\""
# Build binaries
$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):$(pwd) html2svg-build-env scripts/build.sh release-arm64 --target-cpu=arm64

Finally, build the Docker image:

docker build .

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