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by fasterthanlime
1637 days ago
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Hey David, thanks for draw.io/diagrams.net and I hope you liked the article! I've found both of these before attempting any of this (I think you linked them to me on Twitter?), but was happy with neither of them: the point was to not depend on Docker, or Node, or have a solution that's Linux-only. My solution integrates well with the rest of the pipeline that's all-Rust, and it works at least on Linux and Windows (macOS would probably be easy to support as well but I don't use it currently). It's very similar to `draw-image-export2` in spirit. In my solution I made sure to ship a font I always use in diagrams (Iosevka) as a webfont, so I don't have to rely on fontconfig to find it - I'm not sure how that would work with either of the readily available solutions. And finally, I've left as a next step but: I am planning on keeping a Chrome instance running in the background (and an http server), and re-use it so there's less setup/teardown for each export. |
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But yes, I see the problem with docker, we don't actually use any of the docker images anywhere. Why is node a problem?
We are thinking about adding an option to make the SVG export go via PDF through inkscape to make the labels all SVG. The end SVG is actually smaller than the one we produce in initial testing.