On Wednesday 01 December 2004 03:02, Thomas DeWeese wrote:

Hi

> Andreas Steichardt wrote:
> > We are making heavy use of flowtext in our svgs and convert them to pdf.
> > Unfortunately the size of these pdfs is very huge because the text gets
> > converted to vectors. Are there any plans to change that? Or maybe there
> > is already a (commandline) option to take the text as it is and i missed
> > it?
>
>     This isn't easy.  The PDF transcoder will handle 'simple' text but
> for complex SVG text it resorts to outlines.  The basic problem is
> that as I understand it, it isn't easy to go from a Java GlyphVector
> (which is what Batik generates) to PDF text.

any chances that this will change in the near future?

Kind regards,

 Andreas Streichardt

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