[reportlab-users] SVG support on the Canvas?

[Bill Janssen]

What's confusing me is "app".  What's that?

Bill

Roberto Alsina <ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar> wrote:


> On Tuesday 02 June 2009 18:19:16 Bill Janssen wrote:

> > 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.

> 

> BTW: the latest version is here:

> 

> http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/source/browse/trunk/rst2pdf/svgimage.py

> http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/source/browse/trunk/rst2pdf/uniconvsaver.py

> 

> The svgimage flowable loads the SVG, which uniconvertor stores in its internal 

> representation.

> 

> Then the call to save() in drawOn() passes the canvas to the PDFDevice class, 

> which means it just draws the SVG in that canvas, there is never any PDF 

> generated until you save your document.

> 

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