I'm using CairoSVG successfully in my Python project - md2pptx. It converts SVG to PNG and that is then scaled to fit a space on the relevant PowerPoint slide. It would be better to scale the SVG file on conversion rather than subsequently. But I don't kno3w the proportions (or dimensions) of the SVG file. Yes, I could parse the XML in my own code - but it's better not to. CairoSVG appears to have an internal method for getting this information - but not an externalised one. How can I use CairoSVG in Python 3 to get the proportions or dimensions? Continue reading...
