From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2003-06-10T06:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: writing jpegs from svg discription

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:55:50 +0900, niels wolf wrote:

> hi list.
> i am very new to ruby. mostly i develop in php oop. but the image
> library sucks in php and php is dam slow.
> i am working on a private project were i send huge amount of data
> discribing mainly polygons in svg format from a web client. this need to
> get written to jpeg format on the server site. i saw some great examples
> of ruby using packages for writing images. but i am pretty lost in the
> world of ruby. can anybody give me a hint where to look to get me on the
> right train? would be very nice and finally would get me into ruby more.
> thanx
> niels

ImageMagick supports the SVG 1.0 PATH element. You can also translate
other SVG elements into Ruby method calls. You can use the RMagick
extension to call ImageMagick from Ruby scripts. See
http://home.nc.rr.com/rmagick for examples.

Email me if you want details.