PettySVG is an incredibly basic SVG renderer for Cocoa. It renders an absolutely microscopic subset of the full SVG specification. It doesn’t even compare with a professional quality SVG renderer such as the new ksvg support being added to WebKit.
PettySVG only supports the basic drawing primitives. Path support is currently semi-complete (and semi-broken). It does not support any SVG special effects or animations. In fact PettySVG only supports a couple of CSS styles and does not work with CSS inheritance at all. It also isn’t fast (I am working on a couple of optimisation ideas though).
I wrote PettySVG to render small, simplistic vector icons into an application that uses Quartz/CoreGraphics for drawing. I could have used PDF but because SVG is XML I can transform it using XSLT. PettySVG solves the problems I initially wrote it to solve. It is still a work in progress. I am releasing the code (such as it is) under the BSD license.
Source code: http://toxic-public.googlecode.com/svn/tags/BlogTag_20070927_729/Projects/Misc/PettySVG
Sample application: PettySVG.zip
Example screenshot:
(Based on test.svg)
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1 toxicsoftware.com » Lineform 1.1 // Jul 12, 2006 at 12:57 am
[...] I wrote PettySVG almost a year ago as a minimal SVG renderer framework for Mac OS X. As such it works relatively well, although bugs still remain and the set of SVG functionality supported is rather low (PettySVG might be better suited as a SVG Tiny or SVG Basic renderer). [...]