Re: [svg-developers] Inverted mask?

2008-11-22 Thread ddailey
I'm not sure if I follow, so let's start with an example: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/carveholes.svg In this, clicking in the blue rectangle cuts holes in it so we can see what is behind. What doesn't happen here is that the holes do not then block the addition of new holes (in

[svg-developers] Re: google map into svg

2008-11-22 Thread radice_simone
Thanks for your answer, it is very useful. i have another question is it possible load a google map into a svg that use the adobe svg viewer specification? i can't use foreignObject because it isn't support from adobe svg viewer and exlorer don't support xhtml, is there a solution to this?

[svg-developers] Re: Inverted mask?

2008-11-22 Thread Samuel Dagan
Hi SVG Prof, As David, I am also not sure what do you mean exactly, but have another interpretation: If you have a filled circle, and you have another shape which partially overlaps this circle, then the overlapping part of this shape will be cut out. In such a case put the circle / at the

[svg-developers] Re: Inverted mask?

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Bruder
To achieve this you would have to paint your mask in black on a white background. Unfortunately there's no way to set a background color for a mask. It's alway transparent/equivalent to black. What you can do is place a white rectangle of large dimension as the first element in your mask and