Font Linking

[Rob Hinst]

Hi,

I'm having trouble linking external fonts in my SVG document. I used
batik-ttf2svg to create an SVG font definition file for a font named apapa.
The conversion ran without any errors. Here is what my font definition file
looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG
1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"; > <svg
width="100%" height="100%">
<defs >
<font id="apapa" horiz-adv-x="618" ><font-face
    font-family="apapa"
    units-per-em="1000"
    panose-1="0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
    ascent="974"
    descent="-200"
    alphabetic="0" />
<missing-glyph horiz-adv-x="500" d="M63 0V974H438V0H63ZM125
63H375V912H125V63Z" />

... A bunch of glyph definitions here...

</font>
</defs>
</svg>


The URL of the file is http://ipi.exobitnetworks.com/fonts/apapa.svg#apapa

The SVG document in which I am attempting to use the apapa font looks like
this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20001102//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-SVG-20001102/DTD/svg-20001102.dtd";>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; width="560"
height="361.290322580645" >
<defs>
<style type="text/css">
      <![CDATA[
        @font-face {
          font-family: 'apapa';
          font-weight: normal;
          font-style: italic;
          src: url("http://ipi.exobitnetworks.com/fonts/apapa.svg#apapa";)
format(svg)
        }
      ]]>
   </style>
</defs>
<g style="font-family: apapa; font-size: 20px">
<text x="50" y="50" fill="#ff0000" style="font-family: apapa">
This should appear as apapa</text>
</g>
</svg>


But when I view the SVG document (in Firefox, in IE with the Adobe plugin,
or in Adobe Illustrator CS2), it's just substituting a default font, and not
rendering the text with the apapa font.

Does anyone see anything obviously wrong with the above code? I used the
example I found at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html as a guide, but I
may have missed an important detail.

Thanks in advance,

Rob Hinst


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