Tinyvg on despatcheshttps://icle.es/tags/tinyvg/Recent content in Tinyvg on despatchesHugoenThu, 19 Jun 2025 21:38:42 +0100SVG To TVGhttps://icle.es/2025/06/07/svg-to-tvg/Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:02:22 +0000https://icle.es/2025/06/07/svg-to-tvg/<p>I am using <a href="https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui">dvui</a> in a project and it uses <a href="https://tinyvg.tech/">TinyVG</a> for its icon format.</p> <p>While it sounds swell, most icons I could find were still <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG">SVG</a>.</p> <p>When I tried to use a standard SVG, I got the following errors:</p> ``` warning(dvui): iconTexture Tinyvg error error.InvalidData rendering icon craft at height 16 warning(dvui): iconWidth Tinyvg error error.InvalidData parsing icon craft ```I am using dvui in a project and it uses TinyVG for its icon format.

While it sounds swell, most icons I could find were still SVG.

When I tried to use a standard SVG, I got the following errors:

``` warning(dvui): iconTexture Tinyvg error error.InvalidData rendering icon craft at height 16 warning(dvui): iconWidth Tinyvg error error.InvalidData parsing icon craft ```

I couldn’t find a lot of resources online on how to convert an SVG file into TinyVG.

On their website, under tooling, there are links with binaries for various operating systems.

I am not a fan of downloading binaries, but it seemed reasonable - maybe run it in a chroot or container to be safe.

It needed two steps:

Convert from SVG to TinyVG Text

```bash ./svg2tvgt ```

It will put the output in the same directory as the source file

Convert from TinyVG Text to Binary

```bash ./tvg-text -I tvgt -O tvg ```

It will output the binary tvg file in the same directory as the source

Repo & Status

The SDK Repo is using Zig 0.11 and hasn’t had an update in almost a year. There is a PR pending to update it to Zig 0.14, which has been waiting a month.

It doesn’t build on Zig 0.14 as it stands.

I worry that it might already be abandoned, but am hopeful that it will come back to life.

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