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Module: qt.svg

Defines utility functions for working with SVG documents in Qt.

3 Functions

IPython.qt.svg.save_svg(string, parent=None)

Prompts the user to save an SVG document to disk.

Parameters:

string : basestring

A Python string containing a SVG document.

parent : QWidget, optional

The parent to use for the file dialog.

Returns:

The name of the file to which the document was saved, or None if the save

was cancelled.

IPython.qt.svg.svg_to_clipboard(string)

Copy a SVG document to the clipboard.

Parameters:

string : basestring

A Python string containing a SVG document.

IPython.qt.svg.svg_to_image(string, size=None)

Convert a SVG document to a QImage.

Parameters:

string : basestring

A Python string containing a SVG document.

size : QSize, optional

The size of the image that is produced. If not specified, the SVG document’s default size is used.

Returns:

A QImage of format QImage.Format_ARGB32.

Raises:

ValueError

If an invalid SVG string is provided.