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Asked: 2026-05-13T15:42:01+00:00

I’ve been looking for a long time for a way to have a bitmap

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I’ve been looking for a long time for a way to have a bitmap from a VML document.
In fact, I working on a few libs that use the tag, so I have no problem for anything except for IE (of course) because I’m using ExCanvas in IE, but I’d like to have a bitmap from the generated “canvas” (which is in fact VML).

I’ve been looking for a few ways to get a bitmap in JS from the VML, but I abandoned this idea, now I’d like to find a server side lib that is able to get a VML string and convert it to a bitmap image. My preferred language is PHP, but if there aren’t any in this language, it’ll be OK.
I also looked at a Java applet that could do that, but this is in fact impossible without a signed one, this is not possible.

Thank you for your reply !

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found a library which looks like the best solution to my problem : VectorConverter.
    It has however a few problems :

    • it only supports a very limited part of the spec
    • it is not maintained anymore
    • the code is not very well written and it doesn’t use an existing DOM parser for the VML
    • I don’t have time to enhance it !

    So if anyone with a lot of time and who is interested in this project is welcome to work on it, and maybe fork it. Contact me if you plan to work on it, I may help you.

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