Can this tools generate a PDF or svg file?

[Orz-CQ]

Hi,
It is such an amazing tools! I love this pattern to show the msa results.
But I am wondering if it can generante a PDF file that contain the output show in the terminal?

Lan

[althonos]

Hi Lan!

The RichAlignment is a rich renderable object, and rich implements exporting to SVG. You can get a result Simply print to a console in record mode and use the Console.export_svg method to get an SVG representation.

For instance:

import Bio.AlignIO
import rich
from rich_msa import RichAlignment

msa = Bio.AlignIO.read("tests/data/swissprot-halorhodopsin.muscle.afa", "fasta")
viewer = RichAlignment(
    names=[record.id for record in msa],
    sequences=[str(record.seq) for record in msa],
)

console = rich.console.Console(record=True, quiet=True)
console.print(viewer)

with open("example.svg", "w") as f:
    f.write(console.export_svg())

This will write a SVG file named example.svg the following content: