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Svglib

A pure-Python library for reading and converting SVG

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About

Svglib is a pure-Python library for reading SVG_ files and converting
them (to a reasonable degree) to other formats using the ReportLab_ Open
Source toolkit.

Used as a package you can read existing SVG files and convert them into
ReportLab Drawing objects that can be used in a variety of contexts,
e.g. as ReportLab Platypus Flowable objects or in RML_.
As a command-line tool it converts SVG files into PDF ones (but adding
other output formats like bitmap or EPS is really easy and will be better
supported, soon).

Tests include a huge W3C SVG test suite_ plus ca. 200 flags from Wikipedia_ and some selected symbols from Wikipedia_ (with increasingly
less pointing to missing features).

Features

convert SVG_ files into ReportLab_ Graphics Drawing objects
handle plain or compressed SVG files (.svg and .svgz)
allow patterns for output files on command-line
install a Python package named svglib
install a Python command-line script named svg2pdf
provide a PyTest_ test suite with over 90% code coverage
test entire W3C SVG test suite_ after pulling from the internet
test all SVG flags from Wikipedia_ after pulling from the internet
test selected SVG symbols from Wikipedia_ after pulling from the net
support Python 3.7+ and PyPy3

Known limitations

@import rules in stylesheets are ignored. CSS is supported, but the range
of supported attributes is still limited
clipping is limited to single paths, no mask support
color gradients are not supported (limitation of reportlab)
SVG ForeignObject elements are not supported.

Examples

You can use svglib as a Python package e.g. like in the following
interactive Python session:

.. code:: python

>>> from svglib.svglib import svg2rlg
>>> from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF, renderPM
>>>
>>> drawing = svg2rlg("file.svg")
>>> renderPDF.drawToFile(drawing, "file.pdf")
>>> renderPM.drawToFile(drawing, "file.png", fmt="PNG")

Note that the second parameter of drawToFile can be any
Python file object_, like a BytesIO buffer if you don't want the result
to be written on disk for example.

In addition a script named svg2pdf can be used more easily from
the system command-line. Here is the output from svg2pdf -h::

usage: svg2pdf [-h] [-v] [-o PATH_PAT] [PATH [PATH ...]]

svg2pdf v. x.x.x
A converter from SVG to PDF (via ReportLab Graphics)

positional arguments:
  PATH                  Input SVG file path with extension .svg or .svgz.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         Print version number and exit.
  -o PATH_PAT, --output PATH_PAT
                        Set output path (incl. the placeholders: dirname,
                        basename,base, ext, now) in both, %(name)s and {name}
                        notations.

examples:
  # convert path/file.svg to path/file.pdf
  svg2pdf path/file.svg

  # convert file1.svg to file1.pdf and file2.svgz to file2.pdf
  svg2pdf file1.svg file2.svgz

  # convert file.svg to out.pdf
  svg2pdf -o out.pdf file.svg

  # convert all SVG files in path/ to PDF files with names like:
  # path/file1.svg -> file1.pdf
  svg2pdf -o "%(base)s.pdf" path/file*.svg

  # like before but with timestamp in the PDF files:
  # path/file1.svg -> path/out-12-58-36-file1.pdf
  svg2pdf -o {{dirname}}/out-{{now.hour}}-{{now.minute}}-{{now.second}}-%(base)s.pdf path/file*.svg

issues/pull requests:
    https://github.com/deeplook/svglib

Copyleft by Dinu Gherman, 2008-2021 (LGPL 3):
    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Dependencies

Svglib depends mainly on the reportlab package, which provides
the abstractions for building complex Drawings which it can render
into different fileformats, including PDF, EPS, SVG and various bitmaps
ones. Other dependancies are lxml which is used in the context of SVG
CSS stylesheets.

Installation

There are three ways to install svglib.

Using pip
++++++++++++++++

With the pip command on your system and a working internet
connection you can install the newest version of svglib with only
one command in a terminal::

$ pip install svglib

You can also use pip to install the very latest version of the
repository from GitHub, but then you won't be able to conveniently
run the test suite::

$ pip install git+https://github.com/deeplook/svglib

Using conda
++++++++++++++++++

If you use Anaconda_ or Miniconda_ you are surely using its respective package
manager, Conda_, as well. In that case you should be able to install svglib
using these simple commands::

$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda install svglib

Svglib was kindly packaged for conda by nicoddemus_. See here more about
svglib with conda_.

Manual installation
+++++++++++++++++++++++

Alternatively, you can install a tarball like svglib-<version>.tar.gz
after downloading it from the svglib page on PyPI_ or the
svglib releases page on GitHub_ and executing a sequence of commands
like shown here::

$ tar xfz svglib-<version>.tar.gz
$ cd svglib-<version>
$ python setup.py install

This will install a Python package named svglib in the
site-packages subfolder of your Python installation and a script
tool named svg2pdf in your bin directory, e.g. in
/usr/local/bin.

Testing

The svglib tarball distribution contains a PyTest_ test suite
in the tests directory. There, in tests/README.rst, you can
also read more about testing. You can run the testsuite e.g. like
shown in the following lines on the command-line::

$ tar xfz svglib-<version>.tar.gz
$ cd svglib-<version>
$ PYTHONPATH=. py.test
======================== test session starts =========================
platform darwin -- Python 3.7.3, pytest-5.0.1, py-1.8.0, pluggy-0.12.0
rootdir: /Users/dinu/repos/github/deeplook/svglib, inifile:
plugins: cov-2.4.0
collected 36 items

tests/test_basic.py ............................
tests/test_samples.py .s.s.s.s

=============== 32 passed, 4 skipped in 49.18 seconds ================

Bug reports

Please report bugs on the svglib issue tracker_ on GitHub (pull
requests are also appreciated)!
If necessary, please include information about the operating system, as
well as the versions of svglib, ReportLab and Python being used!

.. _SVG: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
.. _W3C SVG test suite:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Test_Suite_Overview
.. _flags from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_sovereign_state_flags
.. _symbols from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symbols
.. _ReportLab: https://www.reportlab.com/opensource/
.. _RML: https://www.reportlab.com/software/rml-reference/
.. _svglib issue tracker: https://github.com/deeplook/svglib/issues
.. _PyTest: http://pytest.org
.. _svglib page on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/svglib/
.. _svglib releases page on GitHub: https://github.com/deeplook/svglib/releases
.. _Python file object: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-file-object
.. _Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/download/
.. _Miniconda: https://conda.io/miniconda.html
.. _Conda: https://conda.io
.. _svglib with conda: https://github.com/conda-forge/svglib-feedstock
.. _nicoddemus: https://github.com/nicoddemus

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