Re: Reportlab + SVG

Richard Shea:

> It's a long time since I looked at this subject so I thought I would ask
> for an update.
> 
> If I have an SVG file I wish to embed in a Reportlab generated PDF is
> the recommended approach to use PIL (or Pillow ?) to convert it to a
> non-vector format and use the result of the process to initialise a
> Reportlab Image object ?
> 
> I'm asking because I thought sometime I read about a more direct
> approach where ReportLab might deal with SVG's directly but now I go and
> look for a reference to that idea I can't find it.

You might want to look at this:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/svglib/0.6.3

It's somewhat dusted, not Python 3.0, and comes with a few limitations, mostly given by SVG features not mappable to ReportLab Graphics features, like gradiation, some font magic and probably a few others...

Regards,

Dinu