[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mark,
Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply (again :-). First, an update...
Somebody suggested that switching to the latest Batik would be the best
place to start here, and in general I think that's great advice. I had
actually tried that before, but it threw an NPE right out of the blocks.
But meanwhile, a thread came up concerning that very problem. This
was the post re: "org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory --
svgplugin calling startElement() before createDocument()"... that poster
was having the problem with the Eclipse svgplugin and it turned out to
be the same problem I was having with Saxon. So I downloaded the Batik
source release, applied your suggested patch from that thread, and built
a new batik-all.jar.
This sort of took me from bad to worse.
First of all, the whole rectangle went black. I added 'fill="white"' on
the rectagle and then I could see the text again, but of course I need
that background to transparent, not white. I found the release note
explaining the rendering of shapes inside flowRegion per SVG 1.2, but I
have not been able to get my transparent background back... neither
'visibility="hidden"' nor setting fill and stroke to "none" have any
effect, and I've double checked this a couple of times.
And secondly... with the background set to white, I can see that the
flow problem is still there. No change from Batik 1.6.
So with that...
So I noticed some odd stuff in the rendering. First it looks
to me like when text disappears the text that is present ends up
rendered 'lighter' (compare your first one with text=xxx).
Yes... I wonder what's causing that effect. Here:
http://test.pdxrm.wd-2.net/navmenu-heading.png?text=xxx+yyyyyyyy+zzzz
...the characters do look lighter in weight. In both of these examples:
http://test.pdxrm.wd-2.net/navmenu-heading.png?text=xxx+yyyyyyyy
http://test.pdxrm.wd-2.net/navmenu-heading.png?text=xxx
the characters look heavier.
Anyway...
I would be curious if the flow text renders correctly if you
convert the font to an SVG font, and use that (then we don't use
the platform text rendering).
Well, I'm not sure how to do that (?). I tried just removing the
'font-family' attribute. I get some kind of sans-serif font then (don't
know if it's coming from the platform font handler or not), but the text
flow problem is still there.
Also you asked about installing a different version of Java
on a Mac, take a look in /Library/Java or
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
On my system it looks like I have variants of JDK 1.3, 1.4, and
1.5 installed (even though on this machine I don't think I
installed any 'extra' versions - but I probably installed
dev tools). So you may be able to simply change your JAVA_HOME
or the Current link.
Right... Current already points to Java 1.5, so I don't know if there's
much I can do that way.
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