svgtrace 2021

Leverage pyppeteer and the imagetrace.js library to trace a bitmap to svg in python

SvgTrace

Leverage pyppeteer and the imagetrace.js library to trace a bitmap to SVG in python

Example

Convert the following files:

""" Test the image tracer """

from pathlib import Path
from svgtrace import trace

THISDIR = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent)

bw = open(THISDIR + "/logo-bw.svg", "w")
bw.write(trace(THISDIR + "/logo-bw.png", True))
bw.close()
colour = open(THISDIR + "/logo.svg", "w")
colour.write(trace(THISDIR + "/logo.png"))
colour.close()

Output

Install With PIP

pip install svgtrace

Head to https://pypi.org/project/svgtrace/ for more info

Language information

Built for

This program has been written for Python 3 and has been tested with Python version 3.8.0 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-380/.

Install Python on Windows

Chocolatey

choco install python

Download

To install Python, go to https://www.python.org/ and download the latest version.

Install Python on Linux

Apt

sudo apt install python3.8

How to run

With VSCode

1. Open the .py file in vscode
2. Ensure a python 3.8 interpreter is selected (Ctrl+Shift+P > Python:Select Interpreter > Python 3.8)
3. Run by pressing Ctrl+F5 (if you are prompted to install any modules, accept)

From the Terminal

./[file].py

How to update, build and publish

1. Ensure you have installed the following dependencies Linux

   wget dephell.org/install | python3.8
   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python3.8
   

   Windows

   (wget dephell.org/install -UseBasicParsing).Content | python
   (wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py -UseBasicParsing).Content | python
   

2. Use poetry for the heavy lifting and dephell to generate requirements

   poetry update
   dephell deps convert
   

3. Build/ Publish

   poetry build
   poetry publish
   

   or

   poetry publish --build
   

Download

Clone

Using The Command Line

1. Press the Clone or download button in the top right
2. Copy the URL (link)
3. Open the command line and change directory to where you wish to clone to
4. Type 'git clone' followed by URL in step 2

$ git clone https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/SvgTrace

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/articles/cloning-a-repository

Using GitHub Desktop

1. Press the Clone or download button in the top right
2. Click open in desktop
3. Choose the path for where you want and click Clone

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-to-projects/cloning-a-repository-from-github-to-github-desktop

Download Zip File

1. Download this GitHub repository
2. Extract the zip archive
3. Copy/ move to the desired location

Community Files

Licence

MIT License Copyright (c) FredHappyface (See the LICENSE for more information.)

Changelog

See the Changelog for more information.

Code of Conduct

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone. Please see the Code of Conduct for more information.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, please see the Contributing Guidelines for more information.

Security

Thank you for improving the security of the project, please see the Security Policy for more information.