[reportlab-users] Anybody else hungry for Image shapes?

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Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> writes:

> In article <ofcpkub9.fsf@vfa.com>, mmillikan@vfa.com writes
> >"andy robinson" <andy@reportlab.com> writes:
> >
> >> In the office we just agreed that calling the new Shape class
> >> in graphics "Image" would be bad, as it could be confused 
> >> very easily with a PIL Image.  But we have not agreed an 
> >> alternative. "ImageShape"? "EmbeddedImage"?  Suggestions
> >> are most welcome.....
> >> 
> >> - Andy
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> >PixMap?
> well actually I don't think it's strictly required that our images be
> obtained from things with pixels or even bits. I'm sure PIL can read
> those xpm files (which are basically text descriptions) and I suppose at
> some future time we ought to be able to read vector descriptions of
> various kinds. It would be really neat to get SVG images in via the same
> kind of simple interface.
> -- 
> Robin Becker
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Wouldn't including SVG 'pictures' be implemented by by Dinu's
conversion to RLG and then using the general mechanism of embedding
one picture inside another?