SVG Appender

SVG Appender is a lightweight Python SVG parser that focuses on correctly layering SVG images

When appending SVGs, a contradiction soon follows at the form of same name selectors in the style tag and class paths. SVG Appender modifies attributes that contradict each other between all the appended SVGs and as a result generates a new layered SVG image.

Example

We will stack SVG images over the following SVG image:

Base template:

Hat:

Mouth:

Glasses:

Pants:

Shoes:

Misc:

Tail:

The following snippet will create an SVG appender for each SVG image and will append them onto the base template appender.

    from pkg.SVGAppender import SVGAppender as svga


    # Create SVG Appender for each SVG image
    base_template = svga.fromfile('Images/monkey.svg')
    pants = svga.fromfile('Images/pants.svg')
    shoes = svga.fromfile('Images/shoes.svg')
    tail = svga.fromfile('Images/tail.svg')
    mouth = svga.fromfile('Images/mouth.svg')
    glasses = svga.fromfile('Images/glasses.svg')
    hat = svga.fromfile('Images/hat.svg')
    misc = svga.fromfile('Images/misc.svg')

    # Append SVG images onto base template
    base_template.append(pants)
    base_template.append(shoes)
    base_template.append(tail)
    base_template.append(mouth)
    base_template.append(glasses)
    base_template.append(hat)
    base_template.append(misc)

    # Save new merged SVG image
    base_template.save('Images/merged.svg')

This will result in a new "merged" svg image:

Result:

Usage

Install svg-appender:

$ pip install --save svg-appender

Follow the example to view the usage style.