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I'm working with a bioinformatics visualization tool, which saves a biological pathway as an SVG image.
I now want to view the SVG image.. but am having some trouble doing so. I tried opening it as a file in both Chrome and Firefox, but in both browsers it just opens a blank page. I clicked on 'View page source' and I'm able to see the XML data of the SVG image, but still, I want to see the image itself as a graphic.
What's the easiest way to view the image as a graphic? I understand that I can embed it in an HTML page and view it that way.. but that's not at all convenient, if I have to create an HTML page each time I save a pathway as an image.
By the way, I'm using a 64-bit Mac OSX version 10.8.4.
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I am pretty happy with Gapplin. It can convert (export) SVG images to other image formats (e.g. PNG) too.
Miroslav BajtošMiroslav Bajtoš
I needed a nearly-portable solution to view SVG files (vector export from Google Drawings, which doesn't print large images well) since my Mac is locked down to prevent typical software installation, App Store access and Chrome extensions. Fortunately, I can run Homebrew. That led me to install Inkscape from Homebrew using this command.
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There is a nice new free SVG editor with you can get from the Mac App Store or the Chrome Web Store. Give it a try, it's free now $9.99 on the App Store.
Boxy SVG - the scalable vector graphics editor
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LaszloLaszlo
A simple way is to use preview in Mac, simply press space key on the keyboard.
Billy WangBilly Wang
GraphicConverter has always been my standby 'any format' viewer & editor - it does SVG too
Caveat: Not free & there may be other apps that can do it.
TetsujinTetsujinCaveat: Not free & there may be other apps that can do it.
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If you're part of the unlucky few where double clicking an .svg from Finder or opening it from the command line like
open filename.svg
just opens your svg file source in a text editor (and you wanted to see it visually), it appears possible to view them in a browser these days. Navigate in your web browser to its location, ex:
file:///Users/my_username/..
full URL should have look like file:///Users/username/folder/folder/my_jstack.svg
This will 'open it' visually in any major web browser. Alternatively right click on it in
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I found that applications would refuse to open an SVG on OSX unless I gave it the correct extension. So I renamed the file to, in my case,
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you can try this photo viewer to browse SVG images on Mac with ease.
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I just discovered SVG Converter by Ohanaware on the Mac App Store. It converts to a number of formats and can crop before converting. Opening an SVG image gives you a nice window that shows the image and conversion is optional.
Paul WaldoPaul Waldo
On macOS 10.12, I have been working with SVG files drawn using Inkscape and my own hand-written SVG files composed in a text editor.
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Initially the Inkscape files would open as images in a web browser, in Preview, and via Quick Look (spacebar in the Finder), but my hand-written files would not. Instead they were displayed as raw source XML.
It turned out that the critical difference between the two was that my hand-written files were missing
xmlns
:Once I added a namespace declaration to
<svg>
, macOS recognised my hand-written files as SVG images and displayed them as such.Perhaps your bioinformatics visualization tool has also omitted this declaration?
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John MarshallJohn Marshall
Quick no-install option:
- Preview it in finder with
spacebar
- Maximize the window (top left)
- Take screenshot with cmd-shift-3 (wai
PaulPaul
I love the tool ImageMagick it is available from the apt repo for linix as well as a GitHub. Mahabharat 2013 all episodes download free.
Edit:It is a simple command-line utility that utilizes the file extensions, or user flags to override to convert images, with the first file being converted (and copied ) into the second file in the argument list.Source: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
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