Save Tkinter Canvas in SVG file
Project description
- 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.
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