Re: Obtaining glyph bounding box

[James Shaw]

Thomas DeWeese wrote:
James Shaw wrote:
I am loading an SVG file containing an embedded font (and nothing 
else) as an SVGDocument.
I wish to obtain bounding boxes for glyphs in the embedded font, 
without actually inserting that glyph in the DOM.

What is the best way to obtain this data?

Insert the glyph into the DOM (set visibility to hidden or even
just insert and then remove it before your script returns).
Visibility shouldn't be a problem since I'm not actually displaying the 
document.

If you really want to muck with Batik internals there are other ways
but AFAIK there are no SVG DOM methods for the glyph elements
that provide this functionality.
Looking at the API docs, I'm trying to get hold of an instance of 
org.apache.batik.gvt.font.Glyph,
then invoke its getBounds2D object. However, I have yet to find a way of 
obtaining a handle to
the GVT.

Cheers,
James Shaw
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