svglue 0.3.0

Example code:

Step 3:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import svglue


# load the template from a file
tpl = svglue.load(file='sample-tpl.svg')

# replace some text
tpl.set_text('sample-text', u'This was replaced.')

# replace the pink box with 'hello.png'. if you do not specify the mimetype,
# the image will get linked instead of embedded
tpl.set_image('pink-box', file='hello.png', mimetype='image/png')

# svgs are merged into the svg document (i.e. always embedded)
tpl.set_svg('yellow-box', file='Ghostscript_Tiger.svg')

# to render the template, cast it to a string. this also allows passing it
# as a parameter to set_svg() of another template
src = str(tpl)

# write out the result as an SVG image and render it to pdf using cairosvg
import cairosvg
with open('output.pdf', 'w') as out, open('output.svg', 'w') as svgout:
    svgout.write(src)
    cairosvg.svg2pdf(bytestring=src, write_to=out)

It’s important to note that versions <= 0.5 of cairosvg have a bug that renders the tiger scaled incorrectly. For now, you can use a different renderer for better results until that bug is fixed.

Installation

svglue is available via PyPI, so a simple pip install svglue should suffice to install.

API reference

Note that the main target for this library is Python3. The later versions of cairosvg do not compile on Python2 anymore for me.

If you need Python2 support, restrict the version of svglue to <=0.2.1.