Hi. I will have a look at this, but is it ok if i send a file to your email directly? Lars
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:36 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Lars, > > > I experience difficulties when trying to position text correctly in > > svg. My case is this : I have a placeholdere which have width and > > height and is added as a symbol in svg (from illustrator) > > This placeholder will be replaced with text. > > > Sometimes several lines of text are added and i use the <tspan tag> to > > do this. My issue is that the text does not appear although i have > > merely replaced the elements within the symbol to be text nodes and > > not as before rectangle. It seems that it starts from the bottom and > > not from the top (is this right?) > > > Is there some easy way to work with multiline text or text in general? > > In my case I have to manipulate the matrix (1 0 0 1 tx ty) to have > > this sucessfully display the text. If the text is singleline however > > my matrix becomes (1 0 0 -1 tx ty).. > > It sounds like someone is doing something funny with the > coordinate system. Without an example document to look at I don't > know how much help I can give. In particular with just your example > matrix above (1 0 0 -1 tx ty) your text should come out upside down. > > Assuming someone had a similar vertical flip matrix outside of > yours you would see that increasing y would move 'up' the page. > Normally Illustrator doesn't do this but it's possible that in some cases > (like symbols) it does add such a transform (Illustrator uses a > standard Cartesian coordinate system Y is up, SVG uses a 'computer > graphics' coordinate system Y is down). >
