Convert an Excalidraw scene to SVG.

Why not use Excalidraw's own exporter

exportToSvg needs a DOM and pulls in Excalidraw plus roughjs, which is a lot of machinery for a build step that runs occasionally and commits its output. For scenes generated programmatically the conversion is unusually clean, since roughness is zero and seeds are fixed, so there is no hand-drawn wobble to reproduce: the geometry in the file is the geometry.

What the script handles

Rectangles, ellipses, diamonds, lines, arrows with explicit points, standalone text with pre-measured widths, frames, and embedded images as data URLs inlined into symbol definitions. That covers everything the layout engine emits. Hand-drawn scenes with roughness applied are outside what it reproduces faithfully.

It is in the repository

scripts/excalidraw-to-svg.mjs in the landing site source. Plain Node, no dependencies, and it is what produces every diagram on this site. If it is useful to you, take it.

Fidelity

Usage

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