Support for pluggable image formats (or at least adding SVG!)

You mention about the number of ways one can implement SVG. Do you have some references. I am trying since long to figure out a way to dynamically create some flow charts, still yet to figure out one good solution.

After a quick search about native SVG support in PHP:

• GD library doesn't support SVG. It's the most common library and Drupal uses it as the default image processing library.
• ImageMagick supports SVG, but requires to have ImageMagick binaries installed on the server (less common). It is also supported by Drupal.
• Cairo supports SVG, but like ImageMagick it requires to have Cairo installed on the server. Not supported by Drupal.

Also, some image operations do not make sense with vector graphics formats (resize, etc). And what about some SVG features like animation?

Finally, there are several versions of the SVG specification and SVG support varies greatly between browsers - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%28Scalable_Ve... .

IMHO there are several issues to iron out first before being able to implement support for vector graphics formats in Drupal.

I would suggest a getting a basic level of support in at first, where the .svg file is handled without making any modifications (e.g. scale, crop) to the file.

Enable just the simple case of uploading a .svg image, and displaying it in an image element, and later implement scaling, etc. where it makes sense.

I began writing a module to add svg support.
But beware, It is the first module I ever wrote for Drupal, so don't expect fancy stuff.

Because the project that requires me to have svg support will handle a lot of svg and change the svg a lot, I've chosen to save the svg code in a field in the database, and not as separate files.

While the module still lacks many basic functions, like good verification, file uploading, etc.. I've already implemented support for some image styles. And that is pretty easy. By encapsulating one svg into another you can get pretty far.

Now, I'm looking for an interested mentor, to help me integrating my svg module deep into the image-module. I want my module to extend image module to the point that svg images will be handled indifferently from other pictures (for the end user).

EDIT: http://drupal.org/sandbox/josegaert/1511596

this should be a feature request for the image.module. shouldn't it?

This has to be done with a contrib/custom module by implementing ImageToolkitInterface and providing a new (or extended) toolkit that is able to handle the required image type.

Core will not implement new image types. At least not in 8 release.

Let us reopen this issue and move that to Drupal 9. Sure it would be a contrib module in 8.

Is this a duplicate of #1014816: Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports (instead of hard-coding jpg, png and gif only)? Please reopen if it is not.