CairoSVG 2.2.1

A Simple SVG Converter based on Cairo

CairoSVG

CairoSVG is a SVG converter based on Cairo. It can export SVG files to PDF, PostScript and PNG files.

For further information, please visit the CairoSVG Website.

News

Version 2.2.1 released on 2018-09-27

• Fix packaging

Version 2.2.0 released on 2018-09-21

• Clean packaging
• Fix T commands used with previous relative commands in paths
• Use real functions for svg2* commands, improving IDE integration
• Fix files management on Windows
• Handle image-rendering property
• Fix crash with some text samples
• Fix position of embedded svg tags with a viewbox not at position (0, 0)
• Add output-width and output-height options
• Handle references to inner document tags defined after the anchor
• Fix offsets for texts on paths

Version 2.1.3 released on 2018-01-03

• Fix T commands following q or t in paths

Version 2.1.2 released on 2017-12-01

• Fix font-size

Version 2.1.1 released on 2017-09-30

• Use http://www.w3.org/2000/svg as default namespace

Version 2.1.0 released on 2017-09-30

• Use cssselect2 and tinycss2 instead of cssselect and tinycss
• Don’t require lxml anymore
• Rely on defusedxml to detect unsafe SVG files

Version 2.0.3 released on 2017-05-02

• Add python_requires in setup.py

Version 2.0.2 released on 2017-03-20

• Handle text-align in textPath tags
• Test with Python 3.6

Version 2.0.1, released on 2017-01-04

• Don’t crash on relative refs with no input URL

Version 2.0.0, released on 2016-11-24

• Drop Python 2 support
• Drop pycairo support
• Rely on cairocffi, lxml, cssselect, pillow and tinycss
• Fix markers
• Fix URL/id handling
• Use bounding boxes for gradients
• Split deployment and development tests
• Add a scale option
• Add a parent size option
• Test with Travis

Version 1.0.22, released on 2016-06-16

• Fix crash when lxml is not installed

Version 1.0.21, released on 2016-06-14

WARNING: this is a security update.

CairoSVG was vulnerable to XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks, this release fixes this vulnerability by not resolving the XML entities anymore.

The --unsafe option has been added to force the resolution of XML entities. Obviously, this option is not safe and should only be used with trusted SVG files.

Version 1.0.20, released on 2016-02-23

• Allow the user to give parent size

Version 1.0.19, released on 2015-10-30

• Drastically improve the performance of Node()

Version 1.0.18, released on 2015-10-20

• Use cairo groups to apply filters

Version 1.0.17, released on 2015-10-09

• Fix scale and position of markers

Version 1.0.16, released on 2015-08-05

• Support the text-rendering property

Version 1.0.15, released on 2015-06-22

• Use xMidYMid as default preserveAspectRatio value

Version 1.0.14, released on 2015-06-02

• Support the shape-rendering property

Version 1.0.13, released on 2015-02-26

• Fix end markers

Version 1.0.12, released on 2015-02-26

• Don’t crash when paths with markers end with a move_to action

Version 1.0.11, released on 2015-02-11

• Allow commas in viewboxes

Version 1.0.10, released on 2015-02-09

• Allow quotes around font names

Version 1.0.9, released on 2014-08-12

• Don’t crash when gradients are applied to paths

Version 1.0.8, released on 2014-07-14

• Don’t create an atomic layer for transparent tags with no children

Version 1.0.7, released on 2014-05-06

• Fix scaling with negative viewBox origin
• Automatically detect size and position of circles and ellipses for gradients

Version 1.0.6, released on 2014-03-07

• Fall back to pycairo if cairocffi is unable to find the cairo library

Version 1.0.5, released on 2014-03-06

• Don’t inherit clip* and overflow properties
• Don’t transform the root svg tag according to the PreservAspectRatio attribute
• Add simple support for alignment-baseline
• Add cairocffi into setup.py deps

Version 1.0.4, released on 2014-01-21

• Clear relative coordinates when absolute coordinates are set in tspan tags

Version 1.0.3, released on 2013-11-27

• Fix clips and viewboxes
• Don’t draw an empty image when locale is not set

Version 1.0.2, released on 2013-11-19

• Don’t crash when locale is not set
• Get the xml_tree from the root parent when creating nodes from string

Version 1.0.1, released on 2013-09-24

• Don’t crash when svg tag has no width or height

Version 1.0, released on 2013-09-06

• CairoCFFI support
• Support of more external CSS stylesheets
• Handle more filters
• Use pillow instead of pystacia
• Fix a lot of bugs with text (whitespaces, text on a path, etc.)
• Inherit attributes in use tags
• Cache trees for use tags
• Handle conditional structures

Version 0.5, released on 2012-12-13

• Simple support of the image tag thanks to pystacia
• Better tests with pystacia instead of pypng (~35% faster)
• Handle s after C/S and S after c/s in paths
• Handle rounded corners with 2 different radii for rectangles
• Fix python 2.6 support
• Fix markers with empty paths and z/Z points
• Fix initial m in paths with no current point
• Fix transformations order

Version 0.4.4, released on 2012-07-05

• Use a default font size of 12pt
• Fix a bug about non-invertible matrices
• Fix the installation for python 3 with LANG=C

Version 0.4.3, released on 2012-05-04

• Fix the version detection without cairo

Version 0.4.2, released on 2012-05-04

• Don’t rely on cairo import to find the version

Version 0.4.1, released on 2012-04-25

• Use cssselect

Version 0.4, released on 2012-04-19

• Reliable testing suite
• Use tinycss instead of cssutils to parse CSS

Version 0.3.1, released on 2012-02-20

• Percentages, em and ex units
• Real opacity

Version 0.3, released on 2012-01-27

• Simple inline CSS support
• Support for transformations in patterns and gradients
• Real by-surface DPI management (default value set to 96)
• Handle exponents

Version 0.2, released on 2012-01-04

• Change the Python API again to be compatible with 0.1.1 and before: svg2pdf(source_as_bytes) -> bytes but still support filenames or file objects with keyword-only parameters. See the docstrings.
• Add support for display, visibility, stop-opacity and stroke-miterlimit
• Internal refactoring

Version 0.1.2, released on 2011-12-14

Backward incompatible change in the Python API: previously the input could be either a filename or SVG content as a string. Now a string is always interpreted as a filename, but file-like objects are also accepted. Use a StringIO object if you have SVG content in a string.

Version 0.1.1, released on 2011-12-13

Fix Python 2.6 compatibility.

Version 0.1, released on 2011-12-13

• First release
• PDF, PS and PNG export
• Easy installer