v2.4.0

• Selective building (#70): svgtiler no longer builds everything; it now acts like make and selectively builds what it detects needs rebuilding. .svg/.tex files will be recomputed only when they are older than the drawing file, any mapping file (or one of their required dependencies), or any style file; otherwise, you will see the message (SKIPPED). These files only get rewritten (and their date stamp changed) if their contents have actually changed; otherwise, you will see the message (UNCHANGED). This pairs well with the PDF/PNG conversion of v2.3.0, which only does Inkscape conversion when the SVG file is newer: if the SVG doesn't change, it will no longer trigger PDF/PNG conversion.
  • Use -f/--force to override and force all builds, like the old behavior.
• Support require/importing raster images and SVG files from JavaScript/CoffeeScript mapping files (#73). Returns the SVG content as Preact Virtual DOM, making it easy to modify (e.g., strip off <svg> wrapper or add a child). Raw SVG string also available via require(...).svg.
• New Chess example illustrating new require feature for loading and manipulating .svg files, dynamic symbol computation, and JSX notation for creating and composing symbols.
• Provide new share global variable for sharing state between mapping files (#77). For example, this lets you define one mapping file whose behavior is controlled by options specified by one or more other mapping files. (See revised Mario example.)
• Add match method to Context for simpler RegExp matching (previously documented by not implemented)
• Omit SVG Tiler version number from generated .tex files, for consistent builds and version control across multiple users
• Warn instead of crash when mapping returns string
• Fix multiple xmlns:xlink attributes arising when embedding using .svg files directly inside tiles.
• Fix removal of SVG/XML comment headers in .svg source files (when require/importing and for namespace mangling)
• Remove examples directory from NPM package, reducing package size from 1.1 MB (135.6 kB compressed) to 184.9 kB (55.8 kB compressed), for faster installation.
• Document -i/--inkscape option
• Documentation now has table of contents for easier navigation

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

v2.3.0

• More efficient conversion of SVG files to PDF/PNG via a new spin-off project svgink. (#75)
• You can now specify an .svg file (drawn with another tool) directly on the command line to just convert it to PDF/PNG. (Alternatively, you can run svgink directly.) (#75)
• New command-line options -f/--force to force conversion.
• Bug fix for Linux which prevented v2.2.0 from running.
• API change: renamed SVGTilerException to SVGTilerError.

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0

v2.2.0

• .js and .coffee mapping files are now loaded as NodeJS modules. (Previously, they were run as special functions.)
  • Makes these files more interoperable when using them as mappings vs. via require or import.
  • Reveals additional Node features (e.g. module global)
  • Enables a lot of other exciting features:
• New support for import syntax as an alternative to require.
• New ways to specify the mapping from a mapping file: export default mapping or exports.default = mapping. You can still just write the mapping at the end of the file.
• required and imported modules can use JSX syntax, so you can share JSX code between mapping files. (#65)
• Source maps are now fully supported, which means errors from your CoffeeScript mapping files will now have correct line numbers. (#56)
• Command-line interface has new options for setting the output directory, helping you keep organized. (#58)
  • -o/--output sets an overall default output directory
  • -os/--output-svg, -op/--output-pdf, -oP/--output-png, -ot/--output-tex control output directory by file type
• API changes to support a settings object instead of overriding class static attributes. (#47)
  • All settings can now be overridden in renderDOM via data-* attributes.
  • New defaultSettings exported object to modify defaults.
  • Replaces old undocumented renderDOMDefaults object.
  • Replaces old undocumented overrides: Drawing.inlineImages, Drawing.keepMargins, Drawing.useHref, Drawings.keepHidden, Symbol.svgEncoding, Symbol.forceWidth, Symbol.forceHeight, Symbol.texText, Symbol.overflowDefault
• xmldom upgrade means that > is now escaped as >. This can affect CSS output, but should make the resulting SVG easier to parse.

Full Changelog: v2.1.1...v2.2.0

v2.1.1

• Fix support for DOS-formatted (\r\n newlines) and old Mac-formatted (\r newlines) .txt files

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.1.1

v2.1.0

• New renderDOM API feature for rendering DOM elements that contain drawings (e.g. ASCII art) directly into SVG (#64). See these slides for an example of usage.
• Mapping API now supports direct construction of a mapping via new Mapping(data) where data is an object or function. (Previously, you had to create a new Mapping and then call the load method.)
• Document above subset of API as stable

v2.0.1

• Update xmldom, improving SVG output in edge cases, in particular addressing a security vulnerability
• Update Babel and xlsx

v2.0.0

• BREAKING CHANGE: Switch from preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" to default preserveAspectRatio="xMidyMid meet" (centering), which seems more useful especially in the context of slides. See preserveAspectRatio.
• Fix href attribute in case of image embedding (broken in v1.17.0 when adding Drawing.href feature)

v1.17.0

• API improvements:
  • renderSVG* no longer requires the styles argument
  • Drawing.useHref can be set to use <use href=...> (SVG 2) instead of <use xlink:href=...> (SVG 1.1). This behaves better when embedding directly into HTML.
• Fix use of svgtiler on web (via <script> tag, no bundling)
  • Switch from setAttributeNS to setAttribute; only createElementNS seems to be needed/preferred
  • Workarounds for grapheme-splitter (with imperfect Unicode handling), prettify-xml (no prettification), and version number ((web))

v1.16.4

• Fix svgtiler API access within symbol definition files (introduced in v1.16.3 when fixing exports)
• Add support for svgtiler.version version number in API

v1.16.3

• Update dependencies, including DoS security vulnerabilities in xlsx
• Render Preact to string before duplicate detection, needed for latest Preact. You may need smaller SVG output files thanks to better duplicate detection.
• Fix svgtiler not knowing its own version number (in .svg_tex files and command-line output)
• Fix exports when using svgtiler.js in browser or in Node
• Fix handling of symbol without viewBox and manual width/height via --tw/--th options (as in examples/tilt).