SVG Editor

An Obsidian plugin that turns ```svg code blocks and embedded .svg files into inline drawings you can edit visually — modeled on the vanilla-JS Javascript-SVG-editor — with a code mode for editing the raw SVG source.

Features

• Renders ```svg fenced code blocks as inline SVG in reading and live-preview modes (sanitized: scripts, event handlers and javascript: URLs are stripped).
• Hover a rendered block and click the pencil button (or double-click) to open the editor; Save writes the SVG back into the note.
• Embedded .svg files — ![[drawing.svg]] embeds get the same pencil button in reading mode; double-clicking an embedded svg image works in any mode, and .svg files get an Edit in SVG Editor entry in the file explorer's context menu. Save writes the .svg file back and refreshes every visible embed of it.
• Convert between the two — a second hover button on each: on an inline block it saves the drawing as a .svg file in the vault (named after the note, placed per your attachment settings) and replaces the block with an embed link; on an embed it inlines the file's source as a ```svg block (the .svg file is kept).
• Visual mode
  • Tools: select & move (V), line (L), circle (C), rectangle (R), freehand scribble (P), delete (X — click a shape, or press and sweep over several; they fade as they're marked and are removed on release)
  • Click / shift-click / marquee (rubber-band) selection; drag to move; resize by dragging the selection box's edges or corner/edge handles; Delete removes the selection; Ctrl/Cmd+A selects all
  • Copy & paste (Ctrl/Cmd+C, Ctrl/Cmd+V) — pasted copies land slightly offset and selected, repeated pastes cascade, and the clipboard works across drawings within a session
  • Stroke color & width, fill color with "none" toggle, opacity — applied to new shapes or to the current selection
  • Undo / redo (Ctrl/Cmd+Z, Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z), clear canvas, canvas size controls
  • Zoom & pan — mouse wheel over the canvas zooms around the cursor and middle-button drag pans; on touch screens pinch to zoom and drag with two fingers to pan (a second finger cancels the stroke in progress). Plus zoom buttons and Ctrl/Cmd+= / Ctrl/Cmd+- / Ctrl/Cmd+0. Zoom and pan are view-only and never change the saved SVG.
• Code mode — edit the SVG source in a textarea; parse errors are shown and rejected without losing your drawing. Switching tabs keeps both views in sync.
• Ctrl/Cmd+Enter saves from either mode.
• Mobile friendly — works on Obsidian mobile: touch drawing (single-finger gestures; two fingers pinch-zoom and pan), a full-screen editor with a horizontal toolbar and finger-sized buttons on phones/narrow windows, an on-screen delete-selection button, and an always-visible edit button on rendered blocks (no hover on touch screens). In landscape (or any short window) the header, tool strip and properties bar float translucently over the canvas so the drawing gets the full screen height.

Commands

Install (manual)

npm install
npm run build   # or: node esbuild.config.mjs production
mkdir -p "<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/svg-editor"
cp manifest.json main.js styles.css "<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/svg-editor/"

Then enable SVG Editor in Settings → Community plugins (or obsidian plugin:enable id=svg-editor with the obsidian CLI).

Releases

Versioned releases are automated: pushing a tag that matches manifest.json's version builds the plugin in CI and publishes a GitHub release with manifest.json, main.js and styles.css attached (what BRAT and the community directory consume). To cut a release:

npm version patch        # or minor/major — also syncs manifest.json + versions.json
git push && git push --tags

Development / testing with the obsidian CLI

node esbuild.config.mjs production
cp main.js styles.css "<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/svg-editor/"
obsidian vault=<name> plugin:reload id=svg-editor
obsidian vault=<name> command id=svg-editor:self-test
obsidian vault=<name> read path=SVGE-SelfTest-Report.md

The self-test opens the real modal, draws each shape with synthetic pointer events, exercises select/move, sweep-to-delete, copy/paste, styling, undo/redo, code-mode round-trips, invalid-code rejection, canvas resize, save, write-back into a real note (including the stale-line fallback search), the markdown renderer, sanitization, the mobile behavior (compact layout, touch drawing, delete button, visible edit button), .svg file editing (load, save back to the file, embed decoration), zoom (wheel, pinch, reset, coordinate mapping while zoomed, and that zoom never leaks into the saved source), and panning (middle-button drag, two-finger drag) — and reports PASS/FAIL per check. The mobile checks run against the real mobile UI when the app is mobile/emulated, and against a simulated is-mobile body class on desktop; the test itself never toggles emulation because app.emulateMobile() reloads the app window.

Layout

• src/editor.ts — SvgEditorCore: framework-free canvas engine (tools, selection, history, (de)serialization, sanitization)
• src/modal.ts — SvgEditorModal: the dialog with Visual/Code tabs, toolbar, style controls
• src/main.ts — plugin entry: ```svg block processor, note write-back, commands
• src/selftest.ts — in-app end-to-end test
• styles.css — all styling, themed with Obsidian CSS variables