What Jeff said.
Ditto.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: jeff_schiller
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 4:40 PM
Subject: [svg-developers] Re: character to path data in SVG
What Bjoern said.
By the way, I would like to see this functionality exposed at some point in
the future so that web-based graphical editors (like SVG-edit) can convert SVG
text to paths...
Jeff
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoe...@...> wrote:
>
> * ddailey wrote:
> >I just can't remember. I seem to recall a DOM interface or function in
> >SVG that takes as input a character (i.e., a text string of length one)
> >rendered in a given font-family and returns the path coordinates of the
> >outline of that object. (something like "w".toPath(ariel, 100) --> "0,0
> >50,100 100,0 150,100 200,0 200,5 150,105, 100,5 50,105 0,5 z" Certainly
> >we can get its bounding box, and certainly there are utilities in
> >Inkscape and Illustrator to do that, but how about in plain old SVG with
> >JavaScript? I would like to make some pseudo-random distortions to a
> >typeface but can't remember the command, if there ever was one.
>
> There is no such function in SVG 1.1 or SVG Tiny 1.2. Also note that a
> glyph is not necessarily a single path, with SVG fonts you can have more
> or less arbitrary content to make up a glyph.
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