Is there a way to import svg files into paper.js?

[estacado]

I have pre-existing svg files containing shapes that I wish to use in
paper.js. Is there a way to do it?

[vonKristoff]

Im looking to do the same thing. I have a feeling it's something to do with using 'symbols'.

[vonKristoff]

// from docs

Projects allow the manipluation of the styles that are applied to all newly created items, give access to the selected items, and will in future versions offer ways to query for items in the scene graph defining specific requirements, and means to persist and load from different formats, such as SVG and PDF.

[Ryan Beasley]

I don't know of an official way to convert SVG to paperjs...see this discussion from March  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/paperjs/svg/paperjs/PWtGtKw8pq4/dX-oUyNe2PUJ 

If you search this google group, you will see various discussions about the same topic, e.g.,  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/paperjs/X-sJgS3vwr4

That discussion suggests using processingjs to import SVGs into javascript.

Also, there appear to be various tools that convert SVG to postscript (e.g.,  http://cairosvg.org/ ), and then you could try zeffii's PostScript to paperJS converter  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/paperjs/postscript/paperjs/-fYQUNdi9z0/q1g4ggSHVgsJ 

~Ryan

[Felix Turner]

Yes. Check docs here: http://paperjs.org/reference/project/#importsvg-node

In the download package there are a bunch of SVG examples.