#🔒 SVGUtils
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delicate fossil
I'm very confused. I get an error
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AttributeError: 'SVGFigure' object has no attribute 'transform'```
SVGUtils is a module, and so I'm not sure what to do, I tried to find documentation but it is very poor quality and I was wondering if someone smarter then me could help me understand it?
late sphinx
https://svgutils.readthedocs.io/en/latest/transform.html has the class you're using, svgutils.transform.SVGFigure which tells you the methods it has. And transform() is not one of them.
delicate fossil
Sorry - I'm not very smart. I modified my script a little, and it's working, but it's not working how it's intended.
late sphinx
I certainly wouldn't say this documentation is of 'very poor quality' 🙂 but I haven't used it before personally
delicate fossil
I certainly wouldn't say this documentation is of 'very poor quality' 🙂 but I h...
I might just be stupid, too
distant canopy
Sorry - I'm not very smart. I modified my script a little, and it's working, but...
Can you paste your updated code?
stop that
late sphinx
I might just be stupid, too
Give yourself a break, mate.
distant canopy
You don't help anybody when you self-deprecate.
delicate fossil
Sorry - wasn't intended as that. Just meant I might not understand it.
distant canopy
Learning new stuff can be hard especially if the documentation is obtuse.
delicate fossil
So I did use AI to help me, and it wrote a line that I understand what it does, but I don't understand how to do it another way
delicate fossil
import svgutils.transform as sg
directory = "C:/users/aa/desktop/directorytest/"
angle_in_degrees = -25
svg_file = f"{directory}test.svg"
svg_fig = sg.fromfile(svg_file).getroot()
svg_fig.skew_x(angle_in_degrees)
fig = sg.SVGFigure("16cm", "6.5cm")
fig.append(svg_fig)
fig.save("test_skewed.svg")
The line I don't understand is the
AI isn't guaranteed to produce working code.
ChatGPT will literally just make shit up.
delicate fossil
It's essentially initializing the SVG file, but it's giving it a size of 16cm,6.5cm.
distant canopy
Then you're banging your head against the wall for 30 minutes trying to figure out what's wrong.
delicate fossil
I don't understand how I would pull the size from the SVG it's loading
delicate fossil
Then you're banging your head against the wall for 30 minutes trying to figure o...
Yeah. I try to avoid it but when I'm really stuck it helps
distant canopy
If you don't know what you're asking GPT to do how will you know if it's giving you the correct information?
The answer is you don't - then you come here and say "I asked ChatGPT to help write my code" and someone lectures you about how that's a bad idea. :P
delicate fossil
I get it. My end goal is to have it skew that test.svg file so that it's angling (if it matters, I want it to be angling downwards to the right)
It's just a few letters. Right now, this script crops it, to be only 16cm and 6.5cm
So I want to figure out how to make that line take it's dimensions FROM The svg file.
When it does it right now, it crops it, and then it moves each individual object in the svg to be skewed, like this. I want it to be straight lettering, but the entire LINE skewed downwards.
Does that make any sense?
