cairo

How do I convert an svg to png , in Python? I am storing the svg in an instance of StringIO . Should I use the pyCairo library? How do I write that code? The answer is " pyrsvg " - a Python binding for librsvg . There is an Ubuntu python-rsvg package providing it. Searching Google for its name is poor because its source code seems to be contained inside the "gnome-python-desktop" Gnome project GIT repository. I made a minimalist "hello world" that renders SVG to a cairo surface and writes it to disk: import cairo import rsvg img = cairo.ImageSurface(cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 640,480) ctx = cairo

I am struggling with the following issue. I need to generate reports that consists of a collection of charts. All these charts, except one, are made using Matplotlib default backend (TkAgg). One chart needs to be made using the Cairo backend, the reason is that I am plotting an igraph graph and that can only be plotted using Cairo. The issue is that I cannot change backends on the fly, for example the following does not work: matplotlib.pyplot.switch_backend('cairo.png') (I know that the switch_backend functionality is experimental) and I have also tried matplotlib.use("cairo.png") but this