xflsvg 0.1.4

A tool for working with XFL/XflSvg data.

This library is part of the Pony Preservation Project. It is designed to support the development of 2D animation AI. It has three main functions:

• Support to creation for SVG spritemaps for XFL files. Since there’s no publicly-known way to render Adobe’s Edge format, this library assumes that Adobe Animate is required to render shape objects. The XflSvgRecorder class simplifies the process by exporting (1) a simplified XFL file containing a single symbol, whose frames contain all of the shapes in the parent XFL files, and (2) a JSON object mapping parent XFL shapes to their location in the simplified XFL file.

• Convert XFL files and exported SVG shapes (xflsvg files) into a tabular data format. The tabular data will eventually contain ALL data necessary to fully recreate the original animation, and the data will be hierarchically structured to match the original XFL file. This is done using the XflSvgRecorder class’s to_json() and to_xfl() methods.

• Render tabular animation data. The tabular data may be exported from existing xflsvg files, or they may be programmatically generated. This is done using the XflSvgRenderer class.

This project is currently in an early stage. The xflsvg format will change over time as we identify exactly what XFL data is necessary to recreate animations, as will the rendering code.

If you’re using pip to install xflsvg, you’ll need to install cairocffi and cairosvg to use XflSvgRenderer. If you’re using conda to install xflsvg, both will be automatically installed. Note that pip doesn’t seem to install cairocffi properly.