Thomas, thanks. I tried it and it works great.
Now I feel stupid that I oversaw the mask element. I was in that document a couple of times and saw it before, but it didn't register ;-) Cheers, Mariano On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:54 AM, <thomas.dewe...@kodak.com> wrote: > Hi Mariano, > > Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com> wrote on 04/06/2010 04:47:01 AM: > > > > As there are more than one shape used in a graphic I cannot use a > > new gradient over and over again, but I would like to use a single > > gradient that fills the whole icon, but only shines through where > > there are holes in a mask I would apply. I thought the > > implementation would be easy: Just take the shapes and containers I > > have and wrap them in a clipPath element. > > > I suggest you look at the 'mask' element: > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/masking.html#Masking > > It will be much better for what you want to do. Most > importantly it has anti-aliased edges which clip-path > generally doesn't (although Batik will render anti-aliased > clip-paths if you set shape-rendering to geometricPrecision > on the clip-path element). > > > One minor thing is that the line shape doesn't seem to work. > > Right, Clip uses the raw geometry not the stroked geometry, > there isn't much to a line w/o stroking. > > > But the other – more serious – issue is that containers don't seem > > to be allowed as children of clipPath which does seem like a game- > > over obstacle. > > Right you a clip-path can't have groups and stuff, just > geometry elements, of course you are allowed to have a 'use' > element and that can have complex children. > > > On a sidebar. Just to state the obvious: I am fairly inexperienced > > with SVG. So if you see something which you'd consider obvious, > > please let me know and don't think I would see that too ;) > > It's worth browsing the SVG standard just to see what tools > are available. I imagine if you knew there was a mask element > you would have tried it. > > > *Thomas DeWeese* | CDG Advanced Development | > Eastman Kodak Company | 343 State Street | Rochester, NY 14650-0128 | * > **thomas.dewe...@kodak.com* <thomas.dewe...@kodak.com> | 585 724-0294 | * > **www.kodak.com* <http://www.kodak.com/> >
