Chlor

Chlor is a highlevel Haskell vector graphics framework for non-interactive diagrams and charts.

Chlor tries to enable you to get things done, with the given mission statement:

• Chlor is trivial to install.

Many Haskell graphic libraries depend on bindings to non-Haskell libraries (like Cairo/Gtk, GD, OpenGL, etc.) which can be more or less troublesome to install on your system. Chlor avoids this trouble by being a pure Haskell framework.

• Chlor provides a rich repository of reusable highlevel components.

• Chlor generates graphics in essential file formats (PDF, SVG, EPS, etc).

Very likely, Chlor well only be a small cog in your workstream. To simplify your pre- and post-processing, Chlor provides import and export facilities in open file formats.

Chlor is currently available from the code repository only.

Features

Chlor uses a top-down graphics model. You define a box and what objects to create within this box. These objects themselves can decide what to draw within their respective boxes, and so on.

Boxes

You define a box by

• dimension: width and height
• anchor: a coordinate and an origin (which part this coordinate is relative to)
• alignment: you can define how to align content within the box (left, right, top, bottom, center)