svgwrite 1.1.2

A Python library to create SVG drawings.

svgwrite

Abstract

A Python library to create SVG drawings.

a simple example:

import svgwrite

dwg = svgwrite.Drawing('test.svg', profile='tiny')
dwg.add(dwg.line((0, 0), (10, 0), stroke=svgwrite.rgb(10, 10, 16, '%')))
dwg.add(dwg.text('Test', insert=(0, 0.2), fill='red'))
dwg.save()

for more examples see: examples.py

Installation

with pip:

pip install svgwrite

or from source:

python setup.py install

Documentation

• http://packages.python.org/svgwrite

• http://readthedocs.org/docs/svgwrite/

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svgwrite can be found on bitbucket.org at:

http://bitbucket.org/mozman/svgwrite

NEWS

Version 1.1.2 - 08 January 2013

• prevent setup.py from compiling all modules - error with ‘pyparsing_py2.py’ and Python3

• BUGFIX: all tests run with CPython3.3

Version 1.1.1 - 15 August 2012

• License changed to MIT License

• tested with CPython2.7, CPython3.2, CPython3.3 and pypy-1.9 on Win7 Pro 32-bit

• BUGFIX: dwg.animateTranform() -> dwg.animateTransform()

• BUGFIX: in examples, replaced width and height params by size parameter

• added examples

• edit docs

Version 1.0.1 - 08 June 2012

• added inline stylesheets

• added examples created by Lawrence Tattrie

Version 1.0.0 - 27 May 2012

• stable

• tested with CPython 2.7, CPython 3.2, pypy-1.8

• added script tag - thx to jmahmood

• docs also available at: http://readthedocs.org/docs/svgwrite

Version 0.2.4 - 30 December 2011

• beta version

• Python 2.7: all strings will be converted by the unicode() function, for strings containing none-ascii-characters use prefix u"" or better use from __future__ import unicode_literals, because this is Python 3 compatible.

• tested with CPython 2.7, CPython 3.2, and PyPy 1.7

• BUGFIX: color parsing accepts white spaces in rgb() like rgb(0, 0, 0)

Version 0.2.3 - 13 November 2010

• beta version

• Python 3.1 support

• splitted examples.py into several files and moved them to the subdir ‘examples’

Version 0.2.2 - 05 November 2010

• alpha version

• removed ‘attribs’ parameter from all constructors

• new elements: Set, Animate, AnimateMotion, AnimateColor, AnimateTransform, all filter elements

• added set_desc(title, desc), set_metadata(xmldata) to BaseElement class

• moved content of interfaces.py to mixins.py, (ITransform -> Transform and so on)

Version 0.2.1 - 31 October 2010

• alpha version

• new elements: Marker, ClipPath, Mask

• paint service: LinearGradient, RadialGradient, Pattern

Version 0.2.0 - 24 October 2010

• alpha version

• validator rewritten as validator2.py

• debug and profile options separated for each drawing object

• important change: create objects with factory functions of the Drawing class: drawing.<svg-elementname>(…)

• added mixins for setting stroke and fill properties

• new elements: Hyperlink, Image, TextArea,

Version 0.1.0 - 26 September 2010

• alpha version

• new elements:

  • basic shapes: Line, Rect, Circle, Ellipse, Polyline, Polygon, Path

  • text elements: Text, TSpan, TRef, TextPath

  • container elements: Group, Symbol, SVG, Use, Defs

• for examples see: examples.py