Create cairo path from SVG file

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There must be something I am missing.

I am on Windows and want to use python to take the paths from a SVG-file, scale them an place every single one of them on a new surface (or all on one, that doesn't really matter).

I read about cairo here and on stackoverflow and it seemed to me, that it would fit my needs, but I could not find an easy way to generate a path from a svg file. Is there no easier solution than parsing the SVG by hand eg. with xml?

I just answered a similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10393675/rsvg-with-python-3-2-on-ubuntu — argentpepper, Nov 02 '13 at 16:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '13 at 12:03

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CairoSVG parses SVG files and renders them to cairo: http://cairosvg.org/

If you only want a single path, it should be possible to use just the right functions from CairoSVG. Feel free to ask on the tracker

answered Jan 08 '13 at 12:03

Simon Sapin

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Thanks for the answer! I came across cairosvg earlier and because I could not find what I wanted in the documentation, I continued to read threw and extend it. But I had stop at some point, because I could not see the mountain tip after three days I spend on it. Do you have further knowledge about cairosvg? So I am now using Inkscape in shell mode. More of a quick and dirty solution than a good one, but it works. – jitos Jan 22 '13 at 08:27

Create cairo path from SVG file

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