I have an svg I made in Inkscape that uses the shape-inside text property to wrap text. When I output it to png using cairosvg, svglib, or wand the text bleeds off the image because shape-inside is not respected:
When I convert it to png using the Inkscape CLI the shape-inside is respected:
The text in the card is programmatically generated. The card text designer has no idea the width of the text area, and therefore cannot manually add newlines.
Currently, I call Inkscape using os.system("inkscape input.svg output.png"), but that means my python package depends on Inkscape being installed and installed in such a way that its available to the command line. Asking my users to install Inkscape is lame and will confuse many.
The shape-inside feature is in SVG 2.
My goals are:
- Convert svg to png using only python (no calling programs that may not be installed)
- Structure my svgs (using something such as
shape-inside) so that it wraps text automatically, without baking cosmetic newlines into my card games rules