using paper.js without canvas and paperscript

Question

I hope not pose an already answered question, but I could not find something helpful anywhere. I am evaluating javascript libraries for 2d vector graphics and animation. On my way i found paper.js but no way to use it with type="text/javascript", without canvas and so on. In the paper.js FAQ about this point here i could find out that it might work, but for now i could not get it to work.

If anybody has any experience with this, it would be nice to let me know about this.

Answer 1

Since version 0.2, using paper.js from pure JavaScript is easy and well documented. One way to initialize is:

var scope = new paper.PaperScope();
scope.setup(myCanvas);

Full documentation here: http://paperjs.org/tutorials/getting-started/using-javascript-directly/

I'm not sure what you mean by "without canvas" though, paper.js does need a canvas object to operate.