Bug#983509: ITP: python-svgelements -- high fidelity SVG parsing and geometric rendering Python library

[Romain Porte <debian@microjoe.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Romain Porte <debian@microjoe.org>
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* Package name    : python-svgelements
  Version         : 1.4.3
  Upstream Author : tatarize <tatarize@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/meerk40t/svgelements
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: python
  Description     : high fidelity SVG parsing and geometric rendering Python library

The goal is to successfully and correctly process SVG for use with any
scripts that may need or want to use SVG files as geometric data.

This is both facilitated by, and results in, very useful elements within
the SVG spec: Path, Matrix, Angle, Length, Color, Point and other SVG
and CSS Elements. The SVG spec defines a variety of elements which
generally interoperate. In order to have a robust experience with SVGs
one must be able to correctly deal with the parsing and interactions of
these elements.

This project began as part of meerK40t which does SVG loading of files
for laser cutting. It attempts to more fully map out the SVG
specification, objects, and paths, while remaining easy to use and
largely backwards compatible. These elements are quite useful in their
own right. For example, the zooming and panning within meerK40t is done
using the SVG matrix which more robust than the wxPython one. Internal
console commands within meerK40t allows specifying robustly parsed
angles of rotation, colors of objects, and naively uses the Path() and
SVGImage objects. The ability to have these robustly manipulated with
affine transformations provides considerable utility. There is
significant utility in the interactions between these objects, however
if one just want to robustly parse some SVG and convert the data to
their own structures that is entirely reasonable.

Without robust SVG parsing one'll find repeated edge cases of some svg
files that do not parse correctly. svgelements aims to avoid those
pitfalls with robust adherence to the SVG spec.

I intent to maintain this package under the Debian Python Team.