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New document from SVG not supported #178
Description
SVG Read-in support does not appear to be working.
In PyMuPDF, this works fine:
doc = pymupdf.Document(stream=bytearray(svg_str, "utf-8"))
In MuPDF.js, it fails:
doc = mupdf.Document.openDocument(new TextEncoder().encode(svg), "svg");
Error: cannot find document handler for file type: 'svg'
doc = mupdf.Document.openDocument(new TextEncoder().encode(svg));
warning: ... repeated 6 times...
format error: cannot find version marker
warning: trying to repair broken xref
warning: repairing PDF document
...
Error: no objects found
const doc = mupdf.Document.openDocument("./please.svg");
Error: cannot find document handler for file type: './please.svg'
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artifex-tor commentedon Aug 12, 2026
SVG import is not supported intentionally to keep the size of the Wasm binary down. Browsers have much better SVG support! If you really need SVG support, you should build the mupdf.js library from source with a custom feature set.