font-weight is not handled about svglib HOT 7 CLOSED

While this can be actually true, testing it with a font like Verdana makes little sense without embedding that font in the output PDF, which is not supported yet, IIRC, as mentioned in #89.

from svglib.

same problem. font_weight='bold' not working for me

from svglib.

Ragarding this issue I tested a little. (Platform Windows 10)
Created a test svg in Inkscape and got something like this : FontSample.svg.txt
(Had to rename it to txt to get it uploaded).
While the intended result is:

The result looks likes this:

Even after registering the necessary fonts:

register_font("Times New Roman", 'times.ttf')
register_font("Courier New", 'cour.ttf')

The result is:

So my proposal would be to introduce a font map were a font family, weight and style can be mapped to specific font.
Then something like:

register_font("Times New Roman", 'times.ttf')
register_font("Times New Roman", 'timesbd.ttf', weight='bold')
register_font("Times New Roman", 'timesi.ttf', style='italic')
register_font("Times New Roman", 'timesbi.ttf', weight='bold', style='italic')

would create the desired output.

If you are interested in such a solution, a can provide a pull request, with the necessary changes.

from svglib.

All contributions are welcome! Just make sure to check if this is something to add to svglib or rather to reportlab itself, maybe.

from svglib.

Can we close this now that we have #268?

from svglib.

I just test the above font svg file, and all lines render fine except the Times-Italic weight 800 one. But this could be handled in a new ticket, discussing how numeric font weight should be handled (e.g. > 700 could be converted to Bold).

from svglib.

Fine, then let's close this, and feel free to open a new one.

from svglib.