[reportlab-users] SVG support on the Canvas?

[Bill Janssen]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:


> Bill Janssen wrote:

> > Found it.  http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/10.html#BB753

> >

> > If I understand what you're doing, you're converting the SVG to PDF,

> > then pasting that PDF inline in the document that ReportLab is

> > generating.

> >   

> 

> Right.  That's what you HAVE to do.  The Acrobat readers don't

> understand embedded SVG (yet).


Sure, but there's an intermediate stage, an SVG interpreter as part of
ReportLab that walks the parsed SVG and re-expresses it in terms of RL
vector drawing calls, which of course then get turned into PDF.  The
problem with embedding "raw" PDF is that it doesn't always work.

Bill