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Hi,

is it possible to initialize and configure an export of a yED diagram to SVG format without having to start and click through the yED's editor GUI? I could imagine to see a command line action for this, like:

yED.exe export --transparency test.svg

If this is not possible, maybe, you could tell me, on which application (maybe an opensource one) yED's export feature has been based on?

Thanks.

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No, it is not possible to export SVG documents from yEd without using yEd's UI.

This is intentional.
We do not want people to be able to use yEd in an automated process. (And offering a command line interface for SVG export would facilitate using yEd in an automated process.) Indeed, the yEd Software License Agreement explicitly forbids doing so (see 1. License Conditions).

yEd is built upon the commercial diagramming library yFiles and yEd's SVG export is implemented with the yFiles extension package ySVG. (Both of these are closed source libraries.)

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