outputting captured screenshot to svg format?

[headless-man]

now currently chrome supports output screenshot to png, jpg & pdf, are there any ways to output to svg format or any plans to add the feature?

[Eric Seckler]

I don't think there are any plans at the moment. Chromium's compositing pipeline rasters down to pixels, so creating a vector graphic instead is difficult to realize. PDFs are a different thing altogether, because that uses the printing functionality, not screenshotting from the compositor.

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:34 AM headless-man <bakht...@gmail.com> wrote:

now currently chrome supports output screenshot to png, jpg & pdf, are there any ways to output to svg format or any plans to add the feature?

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[headless-man]

thanks, and so don't have any tricks (maybe third-party libs, evaluating js codes, ...)?

[Eric Seckler]

I'm afraid not. Final rendering and screenshotting happens in the browser, because rendering inputs from different processes have to be combined to form the resulting image. There's not much you can do from JS. You can of course grab a PNG screenshot and transform that into an SVG in your client, but you're unlikely to get a quality vector graphic from that. Printing to PDF and transforming that into an SVG in your client may be an option, but the output would be a printed page (print-mode, paginated rendering), not a screenshot.

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