Hi Thomas,
You were right the issue is coming from the src URL not pointing to the
file.
Since I'm using a servlet deployed to a complex app server I've switched my
src URL to use an absolute URL in the SVG code like this:
<defs>
<style type="text/css">
<![CDATA[
@font-face {
font-family: "simsun";
src:
url("http://www.example.com:8888/fonts/simsun.ttf";);
}
]]>
</style>
</defs>
Then my servlet and the Batik transcoder are doing the job perfectly.
Thanks for the help,
Thomas
thomas.deweese wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> "Thomas Pifre" 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.
>
>
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