Hi Thomas,
"Thomas Pifre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/27/2008 11:20:07 AM:
> On my local MS Windows XP it transforms nicely the SVG into JPG.
> However on my SUSE Linux 9 SP3 machine I'm getting squares instead
> of chinese characters. So I guess it has something to do with the
> fonts installed on this server.
Correct, getting squares means Batik couldn't find a font
to provide the glyph for a particular code point.
> *transform my MS Windows TTF (SimSun) into SVG using batik-ttf2svg.
> jar then call it from my SVG using <font-face /> this didn't work
This is not ideal as you lose some potentially nice things like
font hinting (although very few Chinese fonts are hinted). Also it
is worth noting that I think you need to provide some command line
args so that it generates the Chinese glyphs.
> *call my TTF from a <font-face> this didn't work
> <defs>
> <style type="text/css">
> <![CDATA[
> @font-face {
> font-family: 'SimSunLocal';
> src: url("font/simsun.ttf") format(svg)
> }
> ]]>
> </style>
> </defs>
This looks fairly good, but I would drop the
quotes from the url, and remember that the url is
relative to the document (so if the document doesn't
have a base url because it's constructed in memory
you need to use an absolute url). Also I would
drop the 'format(svg)' (especially since in this case
the format is clearly True Type and not SVG).
> What could be wrong?
My guess is that the font-face src url isn't
pointing to the font file.
