Hi Mark,
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/13/2008 07:20:27 PM:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Our examples use visibility="hidden" and that works, so I can't
imagine why it wouldn't work for you. How are you adding the attribute?
> > 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.
There are a number of ways to do that. The easiest would be
to reference one of the SVG fonts from the Batik distribution,
<font-face font-family="StrokeFont">
<font-face-src>
<font-face-uri xlink:href="strokeFont.svg#stroke"/>
</font-face-src>
</font-face>
Where 'strokeFont.svg' is the file in the samples directory from
Batik. Then you can use font-family='StrokeFont' to reference that
font.
> > 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
>
> Right... Current already points to Java 1.5, so I don't know if there's
> much I can do that way.
Well you might try a different version, even if it's older.
Or you might see if you can get the version from the machine that
works for your machine that doesn't...
