README

svglib is an extension module for the Open Source ReportLab Toolkit 
(see www.reportlab.com) and provides SVG reading and reusing capabi-
lities to some initial reasonable degree. As a module it reads ex-
isting SVG files and returns them converted them to ReportLab Drawing 
objects that can be used in a variaty of contexts, like in RML2PDF, 
Platypus or PythonPoint. As a command-line tool it converts SVG files 
into PDF ones. 

Modest documentation will follow hopefully, soon. So far, there is 
only a presentation prepared for EPC 2002 (see www.europython.org) 
included in the distribution (generated with PythonPoint and con-
taining many processed SVG samples). 

License: The current version 0.5 comes with unlimited usage per-
missions for personal or commercial purposes except for the direct
or indirect benefit of any legal body like individuals, companies 
or governments involved in planning, delivering or using mass-
destruction weapons! Think twice about if you belong to that group 
before using svglib! Using svglib is strictly prohibited for any 
such individual and/or legal body! Watch out, Heinz Alfred!

Dinu Gherman
June 2002