[Image-SIG] vector graphics Q

[Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky]

Hi Paul,

I haven't done any testing of bitmap to SVG myself, so this is not a 
voice of experience :)
hope this helps:

http://www.scale-a-vector.de/svg-test4-e.htm
http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

Would love to hear if people on the list have used any of the above tools.

Actually handbook is what got me using PIL (thank you Fredrik,Matthew)  
it is one of the BEST features of the library. I tried using 
ImageMagick  before and encountered severe lack of well written 
documentation (and lots of crazy uses for pointers and macros.)  ouch!  
However the handbook was written almost 3 years ago and while the core 
of the library has not changed (i think) some new features might have 
been added (as demonstrated by Fredrik's post yesterday.) I know I am 
being a noob, but I figure I gotta ask :)

I found the following lib
http://www2.sfk.nl/svg

... and once again hit a documentation wall (not as severe in python 
case.) Has anyone used this lib? It looks like development on it has 
stopped sometime last year. Is there something comparable brewing 
somewhere else?

Thank you very much for your reply Paul and good luck with bitmap to 
SVG. If I come accross any more info I'll post it to the list. 

                                        dima

Paul Moore wrote:

>On 10/16/05, Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky <dima at shiftingplanes.org> wrote:
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>>Fredrick does your lib work with SVG?
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>I believe that PIL is for bitmap images only, and as such, SVG isn't
>supported. If you look in the appendix "Image File Formats" of the PIL
>handbook (http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/index.htm)
>you'll see that SVG isn't documented as being supported.
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>>Is there a library out there that is particularly nice (has
>>resize,rotate,copy,paste type functions)for working with SVGs?
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>I also have some interest in vector graphics processing. (Although
>it's fairly casual so far).
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>One specific thing I would like to be able to do is to take a bitmap
>format of a line image (a scanned copy of a line drawing, to be
>specific) and convert it to vector format. I realise that this isn't a
>trivial task (edge detection, and so on) but are there any tools or
>libraries that will do this? I haven't found any support in PIL for
>this, but maybe I've missed something...
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>Thanks,
>Paul.
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