The sample raster images look great! Right now, due to how Go statically 
links code I can't use GPL code in just about anything I use Go for.

I totally respect your license decision, but, it may be a poorer fit for 
Go...

On Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 10:41:07 AM UTC-7, Steven Wiley wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I needed to write an SVG renderer; something that draws an SVG file onto 
> an image (not to be confused with an SVG generator such as SVGo). I wanted 
> to do this in native go, and not rely on wrapping pre-existing C code.
>
> The golang 2D drawing packages  I could find were not capable of rendering 
> stroked paths with joins like 'arc' or 'miter-clip', or specifying between 
> ending a stroked path as an open line or a closed loop. So, in order to 
> draw SVG 2.0 <https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/> compliant stroked and 
> dashed-stroked paths, I refactored and enhanced the raster package from  
> the golang translation of freetype, <https://github.com/golang/freetype>used 
> by many of the 2D packages, into a new package; rasterx 
> <https://github.com/srwiley/rasterx>. More information on the 
> refactorization is available in the readme.
>
> The SVG renderer, oksvg <https://github.com/srwiley/oksvg>, processes 
> only a basic sub-set of the SVG specification, but it is capable of 
> faithfully rendering many, probably most, but certainly not all, of the 
> free and commercial SVG icons available. I have been focusing on just the 
> basics the path functions, and many elements like defs, gradients, or 
> animations have not been added at this point. However, the full SVG 2.0 
> path specification is implemented and even exceeded, since rasterx can 
> perform additional path functions that are not described by the SVG 2.0 
> specification. Also, when an SVG file is parsed, oksvg can be set to 
> ignore, log, or error-out when reading an unrecognized SVG element.
>
> So now we can render a large set of SVG icons in native go! I hope some of 
> you find this useful. Please check it out and let me know what you think. 
> The image below demonstrates the effect of some of the available joining 
> and capping functions.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> [image: TestShapes.png] 
>

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