SvgImage(Flowable) or SvgReader class that provides convenience functions to scale or wrap the image to a specified space using reportlab.platypus? about svglib HOT 2 OPEN

Not sure if this is what you want, but I think that the reportlab.lib.utils.ImageReader class now accepts drawings as inputs so any svglib drawing can be used as an image. In any case drawings were already flowables so can be added to a story.

from svglib.

Well that's partly because I don't really know what I want, I just looked at Image Reader "Wraps up either PIL or Java to get data from bitmaps" class in my open source version=3.3.0, and there is no such fancy drawing acceptance as you described. I don't have any Problem to add a drawing to the "story", I was just thinking that it would be fancy to have a possibility to have my own SvgImage class that accepts a file or file like object as Input and where I can implement what it's drawOn method would do.

Without having to (re)write a lot of code, this seems to be impossible, using reportlab and svglib...

for now I have found that this function is needed to (re)scale a drawing returned from svg2rlg

def scaleDrawing(drawing,factor,showBoundary=False):
    """
    scale a reportlab.graphics.shapes.Drawing() object, 
    leaving its aspect ratio unchanged
    """
    sx=sy=factor
    drawing.width,drawing.height = drawing.minWidth()*sx, drawing.height*sy
    drawing.scale(sx,sy)
    if showBoundary:
        drawing._showBoundary = True
    
    return drawing

from svglib.