canvasvg 1.0.0

Save Tkinter Canvas in SVG file

Added on:

1.12.2006

Update:

2013-07-23 — support for “raw” smoothed lines (contributed by Marc Culler, author of plink)

Update:

2011-02-20 — python3 compatibility

Update:

2011-01-25 — update saveall: use list of items to export

Update:

2008-11-08 — added tounicode, optional argument

This module provides function convert that convert all or selected items placed on given canvas object.

Supported items:

• lines

• lines with arrows

• polygons

• smoothed lines and polygons

• ovals (i.e. circle & ellipse)

• arcs (all kind, i.e. ARC, CHORD, PIESLICE)

• rectangles

• text (unwrapped only i.e. attribute width = 0)

Unsupported items:

• images

• bitmaps

• windows

Stipples are not applied.

Public functions

convert(document, canvas, items=None, tounicode=None)

• document — SVG document, object that support DOM, i.e. provides createElement method etc. (function SVGdocument can be used to get such object)

• canvas — Tkinter.Canvas object

• items — list of objects to convert; if None then all items are converted

• tounicode — user function that should return proper unicode string if Tkinter app use other then ASCII encoding. By default tounicode = lambda text: unicode(text).encode('utf-8'). Thanks to Jan Böcker who provided solution.

SVGdocument

Takes no arguments, returns SVG document; class provided in standard xml.dom.minidom module is used.

saveall(filename, canvas, items=None, margin=10, tounicode=None)

Helper function: saves whole canvas or selected items in SVG file, sets proper dimensions, and viewport; additional margin can be set.

License & Author

• License: BSD

• Author: Wojciech Muła, e-mail: [e-mail]