Comments on: SVG -> Cairo, Ubuntu way – ?

By: Steve Lee

Steve Lee — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:58:25 +0000

FYI some basic python bindings for librsvg come with pygtk (import rsvg). If you need access to more librsvg features (like draw from id) it looks like you’ll need to roll your own with ctypes.

I was using pixbuff loader as a quick hack but have switched over to the cairo rendering now in Jambu.

By: mail

mail — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:41:10 +0000

Ubunteros, actually.

By: Dominic Lachowicz

Dominic Lachowicz — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:04:30 +0000

Fabian – yes, cairo has a SVG backend. But this only generates SVG content. It does not render SVG content.

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:42:09 +0000

Lads, thanks to all of you – I’ll try librsvg.

By: Kyle McFarland

Kyle McFarland — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:31:29 +0000

er, that should be rsvg rather.

By: Kyle McFarland

Kyle McFarland — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:28:32 +0000

the newer versions of perhaps?

By: Dominic Lachowicz

Dominic Lachowicz — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:27:10 +0000

librsvg renders via cairo. #include for details.

By: Stefan Stuhr

Stefan Stuhr — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:24:35 +0000

I suppose they use rsvg_handle_render_cairo. I have used it successfully with the librsvg Python bindings.

/**
* rsvg_handle_render_cairo
* @handle: A RsvgHandle
* @cr: A Cairo renderer
*
* Draws a SVG to a Cairo surface
*
* Since: 2.14
*/
void
rsvg_handle_render_cairo (RsvgHandle * handle, cairo_t * cr)

http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/librsvg/trunk/rsvg-cairo-render.c?view=markup

By: Fabien Chaillou

Fabien Chaillou — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:16:05 +0000

Hello
i’m no expert in it at all but i’m pretty sure that libsvg-cairo is obsoleted by librsvg which is available in ubuntu.

Doesn’t cairo have a built-in backend for svg now?