Place a SVG into a page

[Kozaraboy]

I apologize in advance because, as a new PyMuPDF user, I'm probably touching on a topic that has already been covered here, but I don't have the background.

Simple question, if I have an SVG (ECC200 Datamatrix) that was created by a library in a running process and is available in the memory, how can I place the SVG on a page?

Here's an example:

import fitz
from ppf.datamatrix import DataMatrix

dm = DataMatrix("001")
svg_data = dm.svg()

Of course I tried to put the ECC200 Datamatrix modules together with "draw_rect", which worked, but it massively reduced performance. I have to process 250,000 pages, so that's not the solution.

Can anyone give me an idea how to solve this?

[JorjMcKie]

Try this approach:

1. Open the SVG data as a PyMuPDF Document
2. Convert that document to a (1-page) PDF, open as "source"
3. Use page.show_pdf_page(rect, source, 0) to place it inside the desired rectangle of the target page.

# open SVG source as a (1-page) PyMuPDF Document:
svg_doc = pymupdf.open("svg", svg_data.encode())  # use the bytes version of svg_data
# convert this to a PDF document
source_data = svg_doc.convert_to_pdf()
source = pymupdf.open("pdf", source_data)
# insert source page into the target rect
page.show_pdf_page(rect, source, 0)

[JorjMcKie]

Oops, forgot 1 statement above, going to correct it.

[Kozaraboy]

Works perfect!
thanks 👍