CHANGELOG.rst

ChangeLog

1.5.1 (2023-01-07)

• Final fix to conversion from shorthand quadratic to cubic bézier (#372).

1.5.0 (2023-01-05)

• Add support for ex units (assuming for em/2).
• Add support for image/jpg embedded images (in addition to image/jpeg).
• Avoid crash on @import rules in stylesheets. The rules are simply ignored (#285).
• Fix conversion from shorthand quadratic to cubic bézier (#364).

1.4.1 (2022-08-05)

• No source code changes, only fixed a leftover set_trace() in the released code (#352).

1.4.0 (2022-08-05)

• Include tests/samples/others/*.svg in source distribution (#341).
• Render leading and trailing text content in text nodes (#343).
• Better integration with cssselect2 to support a wider range of CSS selectors (#346).

1.3.0 (2022-05-18)

• Support mmult import from reportlab < 3.5.61 (#316).
• Make zero-length Line, PolyLine and Polygon appear in PDFs when their stroke value is non-zero (#319).
• <symbol> nodes now only appears in documents when they are referenced, not on their initial appearance (#328).
• If only rx or ry is defined on a <rect>, the value is used for both.
• Support non-prefixed href attribute added in SVG 2 (#330).
• Fixed parsing of empty SVG style nodes (#325).
• Handle content of multiple SVG style nodes (#326).
• Better font caching for some font names (#338).

1.2.1 (2022-01-27)

• Revert to scripts usage instead of console_scripts during setup (#313).

1.2.0 (2022-01-20)

• dropped support for Python 3.6 and added official support for Python 3.10.
• improved support for scientific notation in paths (#277)
• if some path has a color with alpha value, it also sets the default fill or stroke opacity of the resulting object.
• matrix transforms on groups are combined with other transforms instead of replacing them.

1.1.0 (2021-04-10)

• honor cascading when applying CSS rules (#253)
• ignore !important statement in CSS values (#227)
• svg2rlg accept pathlib.Path input (#97)
• better handling of font variants (bold, italic)
• a demo for using svglib inside a Streamlit application in /demos
• add a svg2pdf man page
• dropped official support for Python 3.5 and modernized to 3.6+
• added official support for Python 3.9.

1.0.1 (2020-08-26)

• avoid stroking clipping paths (#238)
• when converting percentage values in embedded SVGs, consider the direct svg parent node (#246)
• fixed rounded rects artifacts when rx/ry values are too high (#250)
• avoid stroking rects when strokeWidth is 0 (#250)

1.0.0 (2020-03-22)

• dropped Python 2 support
• fixed references to <defs> content when placed middle or end of SVG documents (#225)
• fixed elliptic arcs reading when arc flags are condensed (#232)

0.9.4 (2020-03-22)

• disabled external entity loading by default (#229 - CVE-2020-10799)

0.9.3 (2019-11-02)

• WARNING: this is the last release supporting Python 2!
• added support for more color values (hex with alpha, rgba(), etc.) (#213, #115)
• handle text positioning when x, y, dx, dy have a list of values
• fixed styles precedence issue (#211)

0.9.2 (2019-07-12)

• fixed license mention in the svg2pdf script (#194)
• support the whole range of HTML color names for color styles (#203)
• fixed a division by zero error when width/height are missing in main viewBox (#195)

0.9.1 (2019-06-22)

• fixed rendering of circular arcs in some edge cases (#189)
• support for percentage attribute values has been added (#141)
• SVG viewbox is now properly scaled to its width/height attributes (#121)
• embedded external SVG files or file fragments are now rendered (#175)
• support <rect> as a clipping source
• prevented crash when a relative file path is used in a memory-only SVG source (#173)
• fixed image translation (by y value instead of x)

0.9.0 (2018-12-08)

• fixed svgz output on Python 3
• kept PDF standard fonts untouched (#89)
• added basic support for non-standard fonts (#89, #107)
• allowed list of font names
• better merge style attributes from parent nodes (#119)
• fixed crash with strings in transform parameters
• handled PNGs embedded in SVG sources (#93)
• improved scaling of embedded SVGs (#124)
• added millimeter unit support
• fixed crash in elliptical arc calculation (#117)
• added experimental support for CSS style sheets (#111)
• allowed decimal percentage values in rgb colors

0.9.0b0 (2018-08-19)

• countless improvements to be hopefully listed in more detail in 0.9.0

0.8.1 (2017-04-22)

• added support for the stroke-opacity property
• added basic em unit support for text placement
• added respecting absolute coordinates for tspan
• fixed crash with empty path definitions
• symbol definitions are considered when referenced in nodes
• fixed compatibility with recent ReportLab versions

0.8.0 (2017-01-23)

This release introduces many contributions by Claude Paroz, who stepped forward to give this project a long needed overhaul after ca. six years of taking a nap, for which I'm really very grateful! Thanks, Claude!

• moved repository to https://github.com/deeplook/svglib
• skipped version 0.7.0 to indicate tons of fixes regarding the points below
• added support for elliptical arcs
• fixed open/closed path issues
• fixed clip path issues
• fixed text issues
• replaced minidom with lxml
• added logging support
• added a few more sample SVG files
• migrated test suite from unittest to pytest
• improved test documentation

0.6.3 (2010-03-02)

• frozen last version maintained at https://bitbucket.org/deeplook/svglib/

Sadly, no condensed changelog exists prior to version 0.6.3.