[reportlab-users] Vector Graphics

[Tim Roberts]

I fear that I'm going to sound like a terrible whiner in this message.

I like to have complete control over the things I print.  That's why I'm 
such a big fan of ReportLab.  However, some of the things I do need 
high-quality vector graphics, such as what you would product with 
Micrografx Designer or Adobe Illustrator.  I have not had good luck in 
importing images from these packages into ReportLab.  To demonstrate how 
far I go, for one project., I actually took the .EPS output from 
Designer, and wrote a Python script to translate the PostScript commands 
to ReportLab calls, all so I could do the fine-grained tweaking that I want.

My question is this: what do the rest of you do when you need vector 
graphics in your ReportLab documents?  My luck with EPS import has been 
dreadful.  Does that work for others?  Converting to JPG is almost 
always unsatisfactory.  SVG looks like a good option, but I don't think 
the tools are there yet.  I have half-considered writing a little Python 
tool to create lines and Beziers, which would generate Python/Reportlab 
code on the other end.  Anybody have any tools like that?

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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.