Saving to svg using Node on Windows

[sjorspeterse]

Hi, thank you for your amazing work!

I tried generating svg images using NodeJS, but got an ValueError: Unsupported format: 'svg'.
After removing a newline character from the npm_bin path, it worked.
In savers/_node.py, I changed
return check_output_with_stderr(cmd).decode()
for
return check_output_with_stderr(cmd).decode().rstrip('\n')

I don't really understand where that newline came from, but I'm using Windows 10.
Hope this helps!

[sjorspeterse]

Oops, just saw that this is already fixed!

[sjorspeterse]

I can't seem to update from version 0.1.0 to 0.5.0 because that requires vega-cli and vega-lite-cli, and those are not available for Windows on Anaconda. Does that mean you're no longer supporting Windows? I'm sorry if this is a trivial question.

[jamesmyatt]

I'm also on Windows and stuck on 0.1.0 because of the vega-cli and vega-lite-cli dependencies. And the selenium version is not working for me, despite the python-chromedriver-binary being available and installed.

[jakevdp]

For selenium, the chromedriver binary is not enough. You also need a compatible version of Google Chrome.

[jamesmyatt]

0.5.0 is available on conda-forge for win64 now, since @xhochy updated the vega-cli and vega-lite-cli dependencies for Windows.

[joelostblom]

Since Altair 5.2, the functionality of Altair Saver is now available in Altair via the vl-convert package. Most of the functionality has been available since 5.0, and the main addition in 5.2 was PDF export. See the docs on how to save charts for more details.

We are going to archive this repo, so I'm closing all the open issues and PRs before doing so. Try out the new options for saving charts mentioned above and if you run into issues, please open an issue directly in the altair or vl-convert repo.