-------------------------------------------------------------------------ScanTrust Fork of: https://github.com/deeplook/svglib Originally From: https://github.com/sweh/svglib

This version has been reorganized and updated a little in the api department, but is largely derived from deeplook/svglib which is from sweh original.

It is packaged as svg2rlg and can be found in the ScanTrust pypi.

• Requires lxml
• Handles <use> and other types of references properly
• Proper clipping support for Path and Rect data
• Many other spec-matching improvements (thanks deeplook!)

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).

This release introduces many contributions by Claude Paroz, who stepped forward to give this project a long needed overhaul after ca. six years of taking a nap, for which I'm really very grateful! Thanks, Claude!

Previous versions were hosted at https://bitbucket.org/deeplook/svglib.

• 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
• run on Python 2.7 and Python 3.5

• stylesheets are not supported (only the style attribute)
• clipping is limited to single paths and rects, no mask support
• color gradients are not supported

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

>>> 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")

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. 0.8.1
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, 2008-2017 (LGPL 3):
    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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.

There are three ways to install svglib.

Install of the library version requires access to the ScanTrust PYPI instance. You can also use the deeplook version, with instructions at https://github.com/deeplook/svglib/blob/master/README.rst#installation

$ pip install svg2rlg

If you do not have the ScanTrust pypi set up, you can add it on the command line:

$ pip install svglib --extra-index-url https://pypi.scantrust.io/pypi/

Testing has been migrated to unittest and should do everything automatically when you use the discover runner.

$ python -m unittest discover

# To download the assets for testing from wikipedia, set the env variable # DL=True as in:

$ DL=True python -m unittest discover

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! Warning: there is no support for Windows, sorry for that!