How to make a chart in SVG?
Making a chart with SVG can be as easy as designing one in Illustrator, or your vector-based design app of choice, export it as SVG, and popping it straight into the markup using an tag:
Making a chart with SVG can be as easy as designing one in Illustrator, or your vector-based design app of choice, export it as SVG, and popping it straight into the markup using an tag:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are an XML-based markup language for describing two-dimensional based vector graphics.
An SVG is a Scalable Vector Graphic. This is just a fancy way of saying it’s an image you can use at ANY SIZE – and it will still be crisp and clear.
PNGs and SVGs support transparency — so they’re both excellent choices for online logos and graphics. It’s worth noting that PNGs are one of the best choices for a raster-based transparent file. If you’re working with pixels and transparency, PNGs are a better option than SVGs.
The viewBox attribute defines the position and dimension, in user space, of an SVG viewport. The value of the viewBox attribute is a list of four numbers: min-x , min-y , width and height .
Creating a JavaScript Pie Chart
First, create a frame, any size, but for the sake of this tutorial make it 200×200. Inside the frame, create a 160×160 rectangle, center it, and give it a fill color. This fill color will be one of the colors in your pie/donut. Drag two guidelines so that they meet in the center of your rectangle.
SVG and PNG both are a type of image format to store images. SVG is a vector based image format where an image is represented by set of mathematical figures and PNG is a binary image format and it uses lossless compression algorithm to represent image as pixels.
Navigate to an . svg file, right click on it and click on the context menu item ‘Save SVG as PNG. Lets you click on the extension icon or right click on an . svg file and choose Save SVG as PNG.
The SVG file format is a popular tool for displaying two-dimensional graphics, charts, and illustrations on websites. Plus, as a vector file, it can be scaled up or down without losing any of its resolution.