Hello monks,

I'm willing to write (and release to CPAN) a new class that can take as input an SVG text stream and output a PNG image. Something like: 

use GD::Something;     # maybe GD::SVG::Render?
my $image = GD::Something->new(400, 300);
$image->render('/my/file.svg');
print $image->png();

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Today I fired a i /SVG/ query on my CPAN shell, but everything I found was related to GD -> SVG conversion.

I'd clearly prefer direct browser rendering of SVG, but as of Feb 2006, only Firefox 1.5 supports it without plugins, and the majority of our users is still using MS Internet Exploder.

So, before inventing my own wheel, is there some Perl class that is able to convert (even with some limits) an SVG text file to a PNG?

Thank you.

In reply to Rendering of SVG content with GD into PNG file by cosimo

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