CairoSVG

About CairoSVG

CairoSVG is:

• a SVG 1.1 to PNG, PDF, PS and SVG converter;
• a command-line interface;
• a Python 3.6+ library;
• known to work at least on Linux, OS X, and Windows;
• based on the Cairo 2D graphics library;
• tested using the W3C test suite;
• LGPLv3-licensed free software.

Let's go!

Install

CairoSVG is available on PyPI, you can install it with pip:

$ pip3 install cairosvg

You can have more information and help in the "Installation" part of the documentation .

Convert

You can use CairoSVG as a standalone command-line program:

$ cairosvg image.svg -o image.png

Embed

You can also use CairoSVG as a Python 3 library:

$ python3
>>> import cairosvg
>>> cairosvg.svg2pdf(url='image.svg', write_to='image.pdf')

Want more?

Please read the documentation to learn more about how to use CairoSVG.

What's new?

Latest version of CairoSVG is 2.7.1, released on August 5, 2023 (changelog).

Version 2.5.2

CairoSVG 2.5.2 has been released!

• Fix marker path scale