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<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">FigureCanvas</code><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvas" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>alias of <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG" title="matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG</span></code></a></p>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">FigureCanvasSVG</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>figure</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">fixed_dpi</code><emclass="property"> = 72</em><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG.fixed_dpi" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">get_default_filetype</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG.get_default_filetype" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">print_svg</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG.print_svg" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">print_svgz</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureCanvasSVG.print_svgz" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">FigureManager</code><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureManager" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>alias of <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureManagerSVG" title="matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureManagerSVG"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureManagerSVG</span></code></a></p>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">FigureManagerSVG</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>canvas</em>, <em>num</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.FigureManagerSVG" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">FONT_SCALE</code><emclass="property"> = 100.0</em><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.FONT_SCALE" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">close_group</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.close_group" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">draw_gouraud_triangle</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>gc</em>, <em>points</em>, <em>colors</em>, <em>trans</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.draw_gouraud_triangle" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">draw_gouraud_triangles</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>gc</em>, <em>triangles_array</em>, <em>colors_array</em>, <em>transform</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.draw_gouraud_triangles" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">draw_image</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>gc</em>, <em>x</em>, <em>y</em>, <em>im</em>, <em>transform=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.draw_image" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">draw_path</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>gc</em>, <em>path</em>, <em>transform</em>, <em>rgbFace=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.draw_path" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">finalize</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.finalize" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">flipy</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.flipy" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">fontd</code><emclass="property"> = {}</em><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.fontd" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">get_canvas_width_height</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.get_canvas_width_height" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">get_image_magnification</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.get_image_magnification" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">get_text_width_height_descent</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em>, <em>prop</em>, <em>ismath</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.get_text_width_height_descent" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">open_group</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em>, <em>gid=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.open_group" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Open a grouping element with label <em>s</em>. If <em>gid</em> is given, use
<codeclass="descname">option_image_nocomposite</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.option_image_nocomposite" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>return whether to generate a composite image from multiple images on
<codeclass="descname">option_scale_image</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.RendererSVG.option_scale_image" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">XMLWriter</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>file</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">close</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>id</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">comment</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>comment</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.comment" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">data</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>text</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.data" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">element</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>tag</em>, <em>text=None</em>, <em>attrib={}</em>, <em>**extra</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.element" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">end</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>tag=None</em>, <em>indent=True</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.end" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">flush</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.flush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descname">start</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>tag</em>, <em>attrib={}</em>, <em>**extra</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.XMLWriter.start" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">escape_attrib</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.escape_attrib" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">escape_cdata</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.escape_cdata" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">escape_comment</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.escape_comment" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">generate_css</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>attrib={}</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.generate_css" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">generate_transform</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>transform_list=[]</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.generate_transform" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="descclassname">matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.</code><codeclass="descname">short_float_fmt</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>x</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.backends.backend_svg.short_float_fmt" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a short string representation of a float, which is %f
formatting with trailing zeros and the decimal point removed.</p>