From dd63b169f177389602e17bc6ced53bd0f1ba0de3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hamilton Kibbe <hamilton.kibbe@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:51:21 -0400
Subject: Allow files to be read from strings per #37 Adds a loads() method to
 the top level module which generates a GerberFile or ExcellonFile from a
 string

---
 gerber/render/cairo_backend.py | 6 ++++++
 gerber/render/render.py        | 1 +
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'gerber/render')

diff --git a/gerber/render/cairo_backend.py b/gerber/render/cairo_backend.py
index a97e552..345f331 100644
--- a/gerber/render/cairo_backend.py
+++ b/gerber/render/cairo_backend.py
@@ -172,3 +172,9 @@ class GerberCairoContext(GerberContext):
 
         else:
             self.surface.write_to_png(filename)
+            
+    def dump_svg_str(self):
+        self.surface.finish()
+        self.surface_buffer.flush()
+        return self.surface_buffer.read()
+    
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gerber/render/render.py b/gerber/render/render.py
index 124e743..8f49796 100644
--- a/gerber/render/render.py
+++ b/gerber/render/render.py
@@ -181,3 +181,4 @@ class GerberContext(object):
 
     def _render_test_record(self, primitive, color):
         pass
+
-- 
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