Convert SVG to PNG/JPEG not working on FF [duplicate] - reactjs

Question

I am trying to convert an external svg icon to a base64 png using a canvas. It is working in all browsers except Firefox, which throws an error "NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE".
var img = new Image();
img.src = "icon.svg";
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
return dataURL;
};
Can anyone help me on this please? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Firefox does not support drawing SVG images to canvas unless the svg file has width/height attributes on the root <svg> element and those width/height attributes are not percentages. This is a longstanding bug.
You will need to edit the icon.svg file so it meets the above criteria.

Answer 2

As mentioned, this is an open bug caused by limitations on what Firefox accepts as specification for SVG sizes when drawing to a canvas. There is a workaround.
Firefox requires explicit width and height attributes in the SVG itself. We can add these by getting the SVG as XML and modifying it.
var img = new Image();
var src = "icon.svg";
// request the XML of your svg file
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', src, true)
request.onload = function() {
// once the request returns, parse the response and get the SVG
var parser = new DOMParser();
var result = parser.parseFromString(request.responseText, 'text/xml');
var inlineSVG = result.getElementsByTagName("svg")[0];
// add the attributes Firefox needs. These should be absolute values, not relative
inlineSVG.setAttribute('width', '48px');
inlineSVG.setAttribute('height', '48px');
// convert the SVG to a data uri
var svg64 = btoa(new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(inlineSVG));
var image64 = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + svg64;
// set that as your image source
img.src = img64;
// do your canvas work
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
return dataURL;
};
}
// send the request
request.send();
This is the most basic version of this solution, and includes no handling for errors when retrieving the XML. Better error handling is demonstrated in this inline-svg handler (circa line 110) from which I derived part of this method.

Answer 3

This isn't the most robust solution, but this hack worked for our purposes. Extract viewBox data and use these dimensions for the width/height attributes.
This only works if the first viewBox encountered has a size that accurately can represent the size of the SVG document, which will not be true for all cases.
// #svgDoc is some SVG document.
let svgSize = getSvgViewBox(svgDoc);
// No SVG size?
if (!svgSize.width || !svgSize.height) {
console.log('Image is missing width or height');
// Have size, resolve with new SVG image data.
} else {
// Rewrite SVG doc
let unit = 'px';
$('svg', svgDoc).attr('width', svgSize.width + unit);
$('svg', svgDoc).attr('height', svgSize.height + unit);
// Get data URL for new SVG.
let svgDataUrl = svgDocToDataURL(svgDoc);
}
function getSvgViewBox(svgDoc) {
if (svgDoc) {
// Get viewBox from SVG doc.
let viewBox = $(svgDoc).find('svg').prop('viewBox').baseVal;
// Have viewBox?
if (viewBox) {
return {
width: viewBox.width,
height: viewBox.height
}
}
}
// If here, no viewBox found so return null case.
return {
width: null,
height: null
}
}
function svgDocToDataURL(svgDoc, base64) {
// Set SVG prefix.
const svgPrefix = "data:image/svg+xml;";
// Serialize SVG doc.
var svgData = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(svgDoc);
// Base64? Return Base64-encoding for data URL.
if (base64) {
var base64Data = btoa(svgData);
return svgPrefix + "base64," + base64Data;
// Nope, not Base64. Return URL-encoding for data URL.
} else {
var urlData = encodeURIComponent(svgData);
return svgPrefix + "charset=utf8," + urlData;
}
}