How to Merge SVG Documents

Aspose.SVG for .NET API provides the Renderer class for rendering and merging SVG documents.

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Rendering SVG documents

Rendering of SVG files is the process of generating images from a 2D model by means of the API. Converting from SVG to other formats can perform by using Render (IDevice, TDocument) method of the Renderer class.

In the How to Convert SVG Files section, we consider two conversion scenarios: using ConvertSVG() methods and RenderTo() method. This article considers the Render() method applying for SVG conversion to other formats - PDF, XPS, JPG, JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GIF.

To convert SVG to another format, for example, PNG, use the following code snippet:

using Aspose.Svg;
using System.IO;
using Aspose.Svg.Rendering;
using Aspose.Svg.Rendering.Image;
...   
	
	// Initialize an SVG document from a file
    using (var document = new SVGDocument(Path.Combine(DataDir, "owl.svg")))
    {
        // Create an instance of SvgRenderer
        using (var renderer = new SvgRenderer())
        {
            // Create an instance of ImageDevice
            using (var device = new ImageDevice(Path.Combine(OutputDir, "owl.png");))
            {
                // Render SVG to PNG
                renderer.Render(device, document);
            }
        }
    }

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Merging SVG documents

The Renderer() method gives you the ability to send multiple documents at once to the output rendering device and merge them. Documents merging (owl.svg, conclusion.svg, lineto.svg) can be done with a few lines of code:

using Aspose.Svg;
using System.IO;
using Aspose.Svg.Rendering;
using Aspose.Svg.Rendering.Pdf;
...   
	
	// Initialize SVG documents from files to merge later
    using (var document1 = new SVGDocument(Path.Combine(DataDir, "owl.svg")))
    using (var document2 = new SVGDocument(Path.Combine(DataDir, "conclusion.svg")))
    using (var document3 = new SVGDocument(Path.Combine(DataDir, "lineto.svg")))
    {
        // Create an instance of SvgRenderer
        using (var renderer = new SvgRenderer())
        {
            // Create an instance of PdfDevice
            using (var device = new PdfDevice(Path.Combine(OutputDir, "result.pdf")))
            {
                // Merge all SVG documents to PDF
                renderer.Render(device, document1, document2, document3);
            }
        }
    }

You can merge SVG files to PDF, XPS, JPEG, JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats.

You can download the complete examples and data files from GitHub. About downloading from GitHub and running examples, you find out from the How to Run the Examples section.