On, Thu Apr 19, 2007, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > As OLPC is in need of both SVG and Pango support in Pygame, I am looking > at making wrappers for SDL_svg and SDL_pango. Rene mentioned that > someone has some code for using Cairo, is this online somewhere? Also, > how would people feel about this as an addition to pygame itself vs. a > secondary library? There is an Cookbook entry using py-cairo at http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CairoPygame?parent=CookBook. I wrote an own small module, which uses libsvg-cairo to load and renderer SVG graphics as pygame surfaces. As it's 'not really' my own code, I'll contact you in private about it ;-). A direct addition to pygame should be handled using the pygame.image.load() methods and the support should be optional. Using libsvg-cairo this could be achieved pretty fast, but I there does not seem to be any support for other platforms besides Win32, the common Unices and probably MacOS X. I wonder for which platforms SDL_svg is currently available. Regarding SDL_pango I already started some code to enhance the font and text rendering support in pygame. Pango brings some really important features such as (nearly) correct complex script handling, good text layout and formatting capabilities and more. My code however currently does not work and will take some more time to be suitable for pygame. Regards Marcus
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