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