## SVG Surfaces

SVG Surfaces — Rendering SVG documents

## Synopsis

    #define             CAIRO_HAS_SVG_SURFACE
    cairo_surface_t*    cairo_svg_surface_create            (const char *filename,
                                                             double width_in_points,
                                                             double height_in_points);
    cairo_surface_t*    cairo_svg_surface_create_for_stream (cairo_write_func_t write_func,
                                                             void *closure,
                                                             double width_in_points,
                                                             double height_in_points);
    void                cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version
                                                            (cairo_surface_t *surface,
                                                             cairo_svg_version_t version);
    enum                cairo_svg_version_t;
    void                cairo_svg_get_versions              (cairo_svg_version_t const **versions,
                                                             int *num_versions);
    const char*         cairo_svg_version_to_string         (cairo_svg_version_t version);

## Description

The SVG surface is used to render cairo graphics to SVG files and is a multi-page vector surface backend.

## Details

### CAIRO_HAS_SVG_SURFACE

    #define CAIRO_HAS_SVG_SURFACE 1

Defined if the SVG surface backend is available. This macro can be used to conditionally compile backend-specific code.

### cairo_svg_surface_create ()

    cairo_surface_t*    cairo_svg_surface_create            (const char *filename,
                                                             double width_in_points,
                                                             double height_in_points);

Creates a SVG surface of the specified size in points to be written to `filename`.

`filename` : | a filename for the SVG output (must be writable), `NULL` may be used to specify no output. This will generate a SVG surface that may be queried and used as a source, without generating a temporary file.
`width_in_points` : | width of the surface, in points (1 point == 1/72.0 inch)
`height_in_points` : | height of the surface, in points (1 point == 1/72.0 inch)
Returns : | a pointer to the newly created surface. The caller owns the surface and should call `cairo_surface_destroy()` when done with it. This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if an error such as out of memory occurs. You can use `cairo_surface_status()` to check for this.

Since 1.2

### cairo_svg_surface_create_for_stream ()

    cairo_surface_t*    cairo_svg_surface_create_for_stream (cairo_write_func_t write_func,
                                                             void *closure,
                                                             double width_in_points,
                                                             double height_in_points);

Creates a SVG surface of the specified size in points to be written incrementally to the stream represented by `write_func` and `closure`.

`write_func` : | a cairo_write_func_t to accept the output data, may be `NULL` to indicate a no-op `write_func`. With a no-op `write_func`, the surface may be queried or used as a source without generating any temporary files.
`closure` : | the closure argument for `write_func`
`width_in_points` : | width of the surface, in points (1 point == 1/72.0 inch)
`height_in_points` : | height of the surface, in points (1 point == 1/72.0 inch)
Returns : | a pointer to the newly created surface. The caller owns the surface and should call `cairo_surface_destroy()` when done with it. This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if an error such as out of memory occurs. You can use `cairo_surface_status()` to check for this.

Since 1.2

### cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version ()

    void                cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version
                                                            (cairo_surface_t *surface,
                                                             cairo_svg_version_t version);

Restricts the generated SVG file to `version`. See `cairo_svg_get_versions()` for a list of available version values that can be used here.

This function should only be called before any drawing operations have been performed on the given surface. The simplest way to do this is to call this function immediately after creating the surface.

`surface` : | a SVG cairo_surface_t
`version` : | SVG version

Since 1.2

### enum cairo_svg_version_t

    typedef enum _cairo_svg_version {
        CAIRO_SVG_VERSION_1_1,
        CAIRO_SVG_VERSION_1_2
    } cairo_svg_version_t;

cairo_svg_version_t is used to describe the version number of the SVG specification that a generated SVG file will conform to.

`CAIRO_SVG_VERSION_1_1` | The version 1.1 of the SVG specification.
`CAIRO_SVG_VERSION_1_2` | The version 1.2 of the SVG specification.

### cairo_svg_get_versions ()

    void                cairo_svg_get_versions              (cairo_svg_version_t const **versions,
                                                             int *num_versions);

Used to retrieve the list of supported versions. See `cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version()`.

`versions` : | supported version list
`num_versions` : | list length

Since 1.2

### cairo_svg_version_to_string ()

    const char*         cairo_svg_version_to_string         (cairo_svg_version_t version);

Get the string representation of the given `version` id. This function will return `NULL` if `version` isn't valid. See `cairo_svg_get_versions()` for a way to get the list of valid version ids.

`version` : | a version id
Returns : | the string associated to given version.

Since 1.2

## See Also

- #`cairo_surface_t()`