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text-align: left ; white-space: nowrap ; padding-left: 0 } h1 tt.docutils, h2 tt.docutils, h3 tt.docutils, h4 tt.docutils, h5 tt.docutils, h6 tt.docutils { font-size: 100% } ul.auto-toc { list-style-type: none } </style> </head> <body> <div class="document" id="svglib"> <h1 class="title">Svglib</h1> <h2 class="subtitle" id="an-experimental-library-for-reading-and-converting-svg">An experimental library for reading and converting SVG</h2> <table class="docinfo" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="docinfo-name" /> <col class="docinfo-content" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th> <td>Dinu Gherman <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de">gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de</a>></td></tr> <tr class="field"><th class="docinfo-name">Homepage:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference external" href="http://www.dinu-gherman.net/">http://www.dinu-gherman.net/</a></td> </tr> <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Version:</th> <td>Version 0.6.3</td></tr> <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th> <td>2010-03-01</td></tr> <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Copyright:</th> <td>GNU Lesser General Public Licence v3 (LGPLv3)</td></tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- -*- mode: rst -*- --> <div class="section" id="about"> <h1>About</h1> <p><cite>Svglib</cite> is an experimental library for reading <a class="reference external" href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/">SVG</a> files and converting them (to a reasonable degree) to other formats using the Open Source <a class="reference external" href="http://www.reportlab.org">ReportLab Toolkit</a>. As a package it reads existing SVG files and returns them converted to ReportLab Drawing objects that can be used in a variety of ReportLab-related contexts, e.g. as Platypus Flowable objects or in RML2PDF. As a command-line tool it converts SVG files into PDF ones.</p> <p>Tests include a vast amount of tests from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Test_Suite_Overview">W3C SVG test suite</a>. It also accesses around <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_sovereign_state_flags">200 flags from Wikipedia.org</a> for test purposes (some of them hinting at more work to be done).</p> <p>This release changes the license from GPL 3 to LGPL 3, introduces tiny bug fix reported by Harald Armin Massa and adapts to changed URLs for Wikipedia SVG flags used for test purposes.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="features"> <h1>Features</h1> <ul class="simple"> <li>convert SVG files into ReportLab Graphics Drawing objects</li> <li>handle plain or compressed SVG files (.svg and .svgz)</li> <li>allow patterns for output files on command-line</li> <li>install a Python package named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svglib</span></tt></li> <li>install a Python command-line script named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svg2pdf</span></tt></li> <li>provide a Unittest test suite</li> <li>test on some standard W3C SVG tests available online</li> <li>test on some Wikipedia sample SVG symbols available online</li> <li>test on some Wikipedia sample SVG flags available online</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="examples"> <h1>Examples</h1> <p>You can use <cite>svglib</cite> as a Python package e.g. like in the following interactive Python session:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> >>> from svglib.svglib import svg2rlg >>> from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF >>> >>> drawing = svg2rlg("file.svg") >>> renderPDF.drawToFile(drawing, "file.pdf") </pre> <p>In addition a script named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svg2pdf</span></tt> can be used more easily from the system command-line like this (you can see more examples when typing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svg2pdf</span> <span class="pre">-h</span></tt>):</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ svg2pdf file1.svg file2.svgz $ svg2pdf -o "%(basename)s.pdf" /path/file[12].svgz? </pre> </div> <div class="section" id="installation"> <h1>Installation</h1> <p>There are two ways to install <cite>svglib</cite>, depending on whether you have the <cite>easy_install</cite> command available on your system or not.</p> <div class="section" id="using-easy-install"> <h2>1. Using <cite>easy_install</cite></h2> <p>With the <cite>easy_install</cite> command on your system and a working internet connection you can install <cite>svglib</cite> with only one command in a terminal:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ easy_install svglib </pre> <p>If the <cite>easy_install</cite> command is not available to you and you want to install it before installing <cite>svglib</cite>, you might want to go to the <a class="reference external" href="http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall">Easy Install homepage</a> and follow the <a class="reference external" href="http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-easy-install">instructions there</a>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="manual-installation"> <h2>2. Manual installation</h2> <p>Alternatively, you can install the <cite>svglib</cite> tarball after downloading the file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svglib-0.6.3.tar.gz</span></tt> and decompressing it with the following command:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ tar xfz svglib-0.6.3.tar.gz </pre> <p>Then change into the newly created directory <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svglib</span></tt> and install <cite>svglib</cite> by running the following command:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ python setup.py install </pre> <p>This will install a Python module file named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svglib.py</span></tt> in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site-packages</span></tt> subfolder of your Python interpreter and a script tool named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">svglib</span></tt> in your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bin</span></tt> directory, usually in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/local/bin</span></tt>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="dependencies"> <h1>Dependencies</h1> <p><cite>Svglib</cite> depends on the <cite>reportlab</cite> package, which, as of now, you have to install manually, before you can use <cite>svglib</cite>. Unfortunately, up to its latest release, <cite>reportlab</cite> 2.2, this package cannot be installed automatically using <cite>easy_install</cite>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="testing"> <h1>Testing</h1> <p>The <cite>svglib</cite> tarball distribution contains a Unittest test suite in the file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">test_svglib.py</span></tt> which can be run like shown in the following lines on the system command-line:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> $ tar xfz svglib-0.6.3.tar.gz $ cd svglib/src/test $ python test_svglib.py ...... [...] working on [0] wikipedia/Ankh.svg working on [1] wikipedia/Biohazard.svg working on [2] wikipedia/Dharma_wheel.svg working on [3] wikipedia/Eye_of_Horus_bw.svg [...] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 12 tests in 87.536s OK </pre> </div> <div class="section" id="bug-reports"> <h1>Bug reports</h1> <p>Please report bugs and patches to Dinu Gherman <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de">gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de</a>>. Don't forget to include information about the operating system, ReportLab and Python versions being used.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>