Thanks for the clarification and workarounds. I will pursue both of these strategies to see which one meets my needs.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Thomas E Deweese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:18 AM To: Batik Users Subject: RE: createElementNS and <text> and getComputedTextLength() >>>>> "TK" == Thierry Kormann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> However, neither Element nor Text has the crucial method >> getComputedTextLength(), which I believe I need to get the width of >> the string in pixels. Hence in my code below you will see a "dummy" >> cast of Text [...] TK> 1. it's not supported in batik yet TK> 2. that's not so easy to implement (we have to nearly render the TK> text element to give you access to that information. That means TK> that all the font family per character, glyph, ligatures... must TK> be resolved at build time !) Yup, it's hard... Might I suggest using the filter hack I mentioned a few days ago. You can construct a filter using ObjectBounding Box an FeFlood to do simple backgrounds for text... Hope this helps. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
