The `drawsvg` python package is a **vector graphics library** that allows python developers to create and manipulate SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for generating and animating SVG images. `drawsvg` is built on top of `svgwrite`, providing powerful functionalities and a smooth user experience for manipulating SVG graphics.

A Python 3 library for programmatically generating SVG (vector) images and animations. Drawsvg can also render to PNG, MP4, and display your drawings in Jupyter notebook and Jupyter lab.

Stars: 505, Watchers: 505, Forks: 59, Open Issues: 10

The cduck/drawsvg repo was created 6 years ago and the last code push was 8 months ago.
The project is popular with 505 github stars!

How to Install drawsvg

You can install drawsvg using pip

pip install drawsvg

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add drawsvg

Package Details

Author

Casey Duckering

License

Homepage

https://github.com/cduck/drawsvg

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/drawsvg/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/cduck/drawsvg

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Errors

A list of common drawsvg errors.

Code Examples

Here are some drawsvg code examples and snippets.

GitHub Issues

The drawsvg package has 10 open issues on GitHub

• Add doc about advanced text features
• Add ForeignObject
• save_png and save_svg produce different images
• text rendering issues - inkscape as optional renderer?
• Mismatch between view in notebook and Inkscape

See more issues on GitHub