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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
