How to retain smoothing effect in SVG when programmatically creating SVG from stroke data about atrament HOT 2 CLOSED

hey there @jkhaui - thank you for reaching out! I'm really glad you like Atrament; the use case you're describing is very interesting indeed. To replicate Atrament's drawing algorithm in SVG, you'd have to either reimplement the draw method yourselves, using the Q path command (equivalent to canvas' quadraticCurveTo) and keep track of all the other stateful variables (thickness, previous position).

In order for Atrament to support this use case out of the box, we'd have to modify the draw method so it calls a sort of "renderer-agnostic" draw function instead of directly calling the canvas methods. We'd have to have such a pattern for the quadraticCurveTo, stroke, beginPath, moveTo and closePath methods, as well as the colour change etc. You could then supply your own "hooks" for these methods, effectively replacing them with functions which just take the arguments and perform SVG operations instead.

In any case, I'd be totally happy for you to take the Atrament algorithm and reimplement it in your code. Let me know how it goes, and perhaps we can indeed make this a supported use case in the future :)

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going to close this as it's been a while. Feel free to reopen if needed, and thank you!

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