Vincent Hardy wrote:
>
> David,
>
> David VanderBrooke wrote:
> >
> > I have been hoping to use SVG for printed reports. I need clean text and line
>output to be meet the users expectations. Batik seems perfect for my use but I ran
>into a problem. I used the stroke:rgb(0,0,0) command (which I don't have to use).
>It caused the text and lines in the printout to have dithered edges. The appearance
>is that of wiggly lines and edges of text. With Batik 1.0 the effect is smaller than
>with previous versions but it is still presentt. When I remove the command, the
>printing is much better.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
>
> You are not doing anything wrong. What happens is that the stroked
> text is rasterized before being sent to the printer and that the
> rasterization happens at a resolution that is not high enough.
> What type of printer are you printing to (PostScript?).
>
> In some printers (being on the move, I could only try with a
> 'virtual' printer, the Acrobat 4.0 PDF writer), you have options that
> let you control image resolution and handling (e.g., compressed or
> not) which are what you need to tweak to get the quality you want.
>
> Vincent.
I think there is another issue here... in the examples David sent it
looked as though the "stroke" command was specifying a zero-width
stroke. This apparently was changing the rendering execution path.
Now, if you needed _actual_ outlines on the text that would be the end
of the story, but since this example had "invisible" text strokes it
may be reasonable to tweak the Batik bridge a little so that it
ignores zero-width strokes on text.
-Bill
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Bill Haneman
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland
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