Re: [Matplotlib-users] svg in plot

[Jerzy K. <jer...@un...>]

William Hoburg:
> Is there a way to import a svg-image into a plot?
> I know that there are some possibilities to import png (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/demo_annotation_box.html) or eps (which is then rastered).
> But till now I didn't find any way to import/embed a real vector graphic which is still a vector when I save the figure again as pdf or svg.
SVG is a text file, a quite complicated XML. In order to put it into a 
canvas you have to parse it, and to transform all the DEFs, the 
primitives and attributes into plotting commands. Such package as 
matplotlib lives in anther galaxy. It took a lot of time to implement 
SVG in Mozilla or Chrome...

Jerzy Karczmarczuk