Hi John,

   There is nothing that should need to be done for this.  The only
thing I can think of is using getPaint instead of getColor (we tend
to set Paint's instead of setting Color's since SVG can have patterns
and gradients).  The baseclass implementation keeps these in sync for
Paint objects that are really Color's but if you modified these
methods yours may not.

   The code for the PDF transcoder lives in xml-fop under Apache,
although you could also look at the SVG transcoder in Batik
(batik.svggen).


john farrow wrote:

Thanks for that. I see I should be specifying fill-opacity and not opacity.

When I specify fill-opacity like this:

<circle cx='225' cy='250' r='100' style="fill:green" fill-opacity="0.5"/>

my override of AbstractGraphics2D.draw( Shape ) is called, which is progress, but the alpha channel (from AbstractGraphics2D.getColor()) is always 255. I suspect I should be telling Batik that I can support alpha values - can you point me to where this is done ?

I attempted to solve this myself using the source and seeing how the pdf-transcoder.jar which comes which Batik 1.5.1 works, but the Batik source distribution does not seem to include the source for pdf-transcoder.jar.

Thanks

John


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Subject: Re: extending AbstractGraphics2D



Hi John,

john farrow wrote:

I am writing a PDF transcoder, including extending org.apache.batik.ext.awt.g2d. AbstractGraphics2D.

Using some SVG like this:

<circle cx='200' cy='200' r='100' stroke='red' stroke-width='3' fill="green" opacity=".1"/>


When a shape is rendered, if it has no opacity attribute then AbstractGraphics2D.drawShape is and I can render the shape to PDF ok. But if the shape has an opacity attribute then AbstractGraphics2D.drawImage is called instead, whereas I would like to have drawShape() also called and I handle the opacity within the PDF.


   There is no way to communicate group opacity through the Graphics2D
interface.

I have a feeling this is a configuration setting or similar, and was wondering if anyone can tell me why this happens, before I spend a day installing the source and wading through it myself.


   It is important to distinguish between group opacity and
fill/stroke opacity.  In group opacity the stroke and the fill are
composited together opaquely and the result is applied to the canvas
with opacity.  So in your example you can't see any fill under the
'inside' part of the stroke, but you can see through to content under
the shape.

   Batik will render fill/stroke opacity as 'draw shape' with opacity,
through the Graphics2D interface it can't do the same for group
opacity.


Thanks for your help

John Farrow

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