UPDATE:

The CSS used in this SVG has negative word and letter spacing. Removing it
appears to resolve the problem. The actual numbers for letter and word
spacing are very small (<1) so I wouldn't expect this to have such a
dramatic effect on the text position.

Chris


cbowditch wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have 2 tspan elements in some SVG. The word following is split between
> the 2 and Batik renders the w on top of the "follo" text. The x
> coordinates of the 2 characters are spaced quite far apart compared to
> other characters so why does this happen??
> 
>       <tspan x="0 7.9157 14.032 16.428 22.544 28.042 33.54 37.668 43.785 
> 46.909
> 53.025 59.141 62.862 70.656 73.052 78.55 84.688 88.651 94.767 100.88
> 104.01 110.12 116.24 120.2 122.6 128.72 132.68 135.79 141.91 144.3 149.8
> 153.79 159.9 166.02 168.42 170.81 176.31 181.73 184.85 188.82 191.94
> 198.06 204.17 208.14 211.37 217.49 219.88 222.28" y="141.26" class="ps00
> ps222">Unless otherwise noted in this policy, the follo</tspan>
>                       <tspan x="228.4 236.19" y="141.26" class="ps00 
> ps223">w-</tspan>
> 
> This odd behaviour doesn't happen in inkscape. I hvae attached a cut down
> SVG that contains the above 2 tspans and very little else and screenshots
> of Batik versus Inkscape rendering.
> 
> Any hints on the cause of this behaviour would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p25167481/batik-anomaly.svg batik-anomaly.svg 
>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p25167481/batik.jpg batik.jpg 
>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p25167481/inkscape.jpg inkscape.jpg 
> 

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