Benjamin,
try putting the flowPara into a flowDiv.

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On 02.02.2011 13:16:07 Benjamin Diedrichsen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am currently using batik and pdftranscoder.jar to transform svg documents
> into pdf. Recently I tried the new text flowing features of SVG 1.2 and was
> pretty disappointed by the results. It seems that the flowRegion ant
> flowPara elements and so forth are silently ignored. At least the output is
> very different to what I would expect. On
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/dev/svg12.html I read the SVG 1.2 should
> be supported in the branch. I compiled the latest trunk and use it to
> transform the SVG but the text just doesn't get rendered and the flowRegion
> is always shown as a black box.
> 
> From what I've read in the mailing lists and on the batik webpage, the text
> flowing features are supported or at least should be. So, what am I doing
> wrong here?
> 
> Here is a very simple example that I actually took from the w3c page and
> that I am working with.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.2//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd";>
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:xml="
> http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";
> width="742.6771734" height="969.4488284" version="1.2" xml:space="preserve">
>   <title>Basic textflow</title>
>   <rect x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fill="yellow"/>
>   <flowRoot font-size="16">
>     <flowRegion>
>       <path d="M100,50L50,300L250,300L300,50z"
> style="background-color:#111111" fill="#111111"/>
>     </flowRegion>
>       <flowPara>Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow; creeps in this
>        petty pace from day to day, until the last syllable of recorded time.
> 
>        And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
>      </flowPara>
>   </flowRoot>
>   <path d="M90,40L40,270L260,270L210,40z" fill="none" stroke="black"
> stroke-width="5"/>
> </svg>
> 
> Anybody manages to transform this to pdf with proper text layout? Any
> comments on the current status of the SVG 1.2 support?
> 
> Here is part of my java code:
> 
> Reader domReader = DOMUtilities.createXMLDocumentReader(is);
> 
>         SAXSVGDocumentFactory saxDocFactory = new SAXSVGDocumentFactory(
>                 "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
>         SVGDocument svgDocument = saxDocFactory.createSVGDocument(null,
> domReader);
> 
> 
> PDFTranscoder pdfTranscoder = new PDFTranscoder();
>                     TranscoderInput tInput = new
> TranscoderInput(svgDocument);
>                     TranscoderOutput tOutput = new
> TranscoderOutput(tmpBout);
> 
>                     pdfTranscoder.transcode(tInput, tOutput);
> 
> Any help and comments will be rewarded with pure gratefulness. Regards,
> Benni




Jeremias Maerki


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