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Expert Data Visualization

You're reading from  Expert Data Visualization

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463494
Pages 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
Profile icon Jos Dirksen

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with D3 2. Basic Charts and Shapes 3. Working with Hierarchical Data 4. Visualizing Graphs 5. Working with Geo Data 6. Visualizing Streaming Data 7. Voronoi Diagrams and Heatmaps 8. Custom Shapes and Paths and Using a Brush Selection 9. ES6, TypeScript, and External D3.js Libraries

Exporting visualizations as SVG and importing them in an external program

In the previous section, we showed how to export our SVG visualization as an image, but we can, of course, also save the element as an SVG file so it can be imported into external programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, Boxy SVG, or Inkscape.

For exporting SVGs as .svg files, we can use two different approaches. If you use Chrome, there is a Bookmarklet that you can use, and which can be found at http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/. When you've installed this Bookmarklet, you can export SVG from any page you want. In this section, though, we'll provide an alternative approach that pretty much follows the same steps that we did for exporting SVG as a PNG file:

  1. We'll once again start by defining the specific CSS style that should be included in the exported SVG file.
  2. Then we combine the SVG and the CSS file into a single SVG string...
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