Thanks again, Jonathan. I didn't realize that Batik came with an XSLT processor. I can ask someone to help me write something for that, including inserting a viewBox with appropriate values if there isn't one in the first place.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:37 AM, jonathan wood <jonathanshaww...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Be aware that some illustrator versions ( < CS3?) can drop viewBox's upon > export. This may only be true for automated exports via javascript, I don't > recall. > > If you are looking to add to a command line toolkit for your automated > document creation, you might look into using XSLT to modify the w/h values. > Xalan is packaged with Batik. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT > > http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Joe Pairman <joeyp2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, <thomas.dewe...@kodak.com> wrote: >> > Hi Joe, >> > >> > Joe Pairman <joeyp2...@gmail.com> wrote on 07/21/2010 03:20:49 AM: >> > >> >> Thanks for the tip, Jonathan. I tried a couple of test cases and it >> >> seems the default is fine for that. >> > >> > Just a word of caution that this will only work if the document >> > has a viewBox attribute. >> >> Thanks. That's good to know. It *seems* that SVGs exported from >> Illustrator always have a viewBox, but I'll check. >> >> >> I have a follow-up question. Is it possible to use Batik via the >> >> Windows command line to change the width and height values by a >> >> certain percentage? >> > >> > I'm not aware of a way to do that. You can set the width and >> > height from the command line but you can't change them by a percentage. >> > >> >> I read that the transcoder could change these >> >> values, but all the information I can find so far concerns the >> >> transcoder API; not anything directly accessible via the command line. >> > >> > If you run the rasterizer with no arguments it should print help >> > text. >> >> I should have explained more clearly. I actually want to change the >> width and height values in the source SVG, as I'm using the SVG >> directly in PDFs. If Batik (from the command line) offered either a >> way to scale those by a certain percentage, or at least to get the >> original values and then change them, that would be very helpful. But >> it's looking like I need to use another tool. >> >> I'm using the rasterizer to convert the same SVGs for web output, not >> PDF. I just thought that as I need Batik for that, it would be neat if >> I could also use Batik to edit the source SVG for PDF output. >> >> Cheers, >> Joe >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
