interesting, I never think filter oriented... but if I want to highlight a filled shape, the yellow never appears, isn't it?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Cameron McCormack <c...@mcc.id.au> wrote: > dao: > > I'd like to highlight a text element of my svg file: > > > > <text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 433.8965 494.4141)" style="fill:#00FFFF; > > font-family:'CourierNewPSMT'; font-size:24;">00.00</text> > > > > I cannot see any way to set the background of a text, or to get the box > size > > to draw a rectangle around it. > > > > Do you know how I can do this? > > A hacky way of declaratively drawing background for your text is to use > a filter: > > <svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' font-size='24'> > <filter id='f' x='0' y='0' width='100%' height='100%'> > <feFlood flood-color='yellow' result='bg'/> > <feMerge> > <feMergeNode in='bg'/> > <feMergeNode in='SourceGraphic'/> > </feMerge> > </filter> > <text x='20' y='100' filter='url(#f)'>Hello there</text> > </svg> > > The overhead of doing this is probably much greater than computing the > bounding box of the text and inserting a <rect> to draw the background, > though. > > -- > Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > -- Dao Hodac
