[BioPython] ReportLab, graphics formats and SVG

[Jeffrey Chang]

Hi Dino,

We don't mean to misrepresent the capabilities of ReportLab and will
change the wording.  Brad, is the use of ReportLab in Biopython PDF
specific, or is it possible to use biopython to create other types of
documents that ReportLab supports?

Jeff


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:20:36AM +0200, Dinu Gherman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> sniffing a bit on BioPython.org again I found a reference
> to the ReportLab package on the download page:
> 
>   http://www.biopython.org/Download/
> 
> which suggests you can use it only for creating PDF files.
> I'd like to point out that you can also use it to generate
> EPS and basically all bitmap formats that PIL knows about.
> 
> A few weeks ago, in version 1.14, I've also added support
> for creating simple SVG files. All these, plus PDF can be
> conveniently created from the same API and be rendered at 
> the end into the different formats.
> 
> Maybe this should be stated more clearly on the page above
> as it is 1) closer to the real capabilities of the package
> and 2) might be interest to larger BioPython user subgroups?
> 
> Also, please note that I've released a Python SVG import
> module, svglib.py, version 0.5, that can be downloaded
> from:
> 
>   http://python.net/~gherman/#svglib
> 
> It currently handles mostly basic shapes (with cubic Be-
> zier paths being slightly postponed). Unfortunatly, a web
> search has not indicated much relevant bio data rendered 
> into SVG, yet, but maybe this will change...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dinu
> 
> --
> Dinu C. Gherman
> ReportLab Consultant
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