Welcome to Claricle
What Claricle is, why we built it, and what to expect on this blog.
Welcome to the Claricle blog. This is where we will publish release notes, deep dives into image formats, and the occasional story from the publication pipelines that motivated the project.
What Claricle is
Claricle is an open-source image suite for publication pipelines: a family of pure-Ruby libraries that validate, convert, and render images across the formats a real publication workflow encounters — PNG, SVG, EMF, EPS, PDF, and friends.
The umbrella gem, claricle, ties
the pieces together behind a single CLI:
gem install claricle
claricle validate ./diagram.svg
claricle convert ./diagram.emf ./diagram.svgWhy we built it
Publication pipelines at standards-development organisations ingest diagrams from authors on Windows (EMF), from print-era designers (EPS), from web tools (SVG), and from screenshots everywhere (PNG). Each format has its own quirks; each tool that handles it has its own dependencies.
Claricle exists to give those pipelines pure-Ruby, dependency-free tools that do each format correctly. Read the about page for the full origin story.
What to expect here
- Release notes when a library ships a new version
- Deep dives into individual formats and how Claricle handles them
- Architecture posts about the ecosystem internals
- Community spotlights when someone builds something neat on top
Star the org on GitHub to follow along.