Chimera

Chimera is a high level library for doing high quality image generation and manipulation in Python. Zope bindings are available

Project Description

Chimera is a higher level graphics abstraction than is commonly available for Python. Taking advantage of the power of the Pango library (http://www.pango.org/) we are able to render beautiful subpixel rendered, anti-aliased text in the fonts of your choice.

Chimera doesn't expose all the funtionality of its underlying systems. In particular its not about drawing, pixel manipulation or other low level operations on a surface. Chimera attempts to deal with handling all its operations in a uniform, simple way so that you can focus on the output you want to generate, now how to generate it.

Chimera makes handling your image manipulation and generation needs
simple.

Formats

Chimera supports composing images from or generated from:

• all common raster formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF)
• using any TrueType/OpenType font
• using SVG images as source layers

Features

• Internationalization
  All text handling support full Unicode and support internationalized layout of text elements.
  
• Transparency
  Author subpixel rendered antialiased, fully transparent text, on-the-fly.
  

Installation

For detailed instructions visit the Documentation Center in the Chimera product section.

Current Release

No stable release available yet.