Hi Craig, thanks a lot for your help, your advise seems to work for me so far. I have some artifacts, but I get rid of them if I union the original image area with the stroked image area, which gets me to the outline I wanted.
Kind regards, Marius Am 15.10.2013 13:04, schrieb Craig S. Kaplan: > Marius, > > I don't think there's a way to do this directly in Batik, but Batik is > written in Java and Java offers some support for tracing paths. If you can > extract a java.awt.geom.Path2D from Batik (and I think there's a way to do > this, though the Batik source base might still use the older GeneralPath > class), then you can define a java.awt.Stroke object (for example, a > BasicStroke) and invoke its createStrokedShape method passing in the Path2D > as an argument. That Stroked Shape is the enclosing path that you're looking > for. If you need to compute booleans on Shapes, you can use the > java.awt.geom.Area class. I can't speak to how reliable and robust their > code is, but I've used it a couple of times in the past without a problem. > > Hope that helps. > >> Inkscape has a method to convert strokes into its enclosing paths as can be >> read on http://inkscape.org/doc/advanced/tutorial-advanced.html and easily >> tried within the software. >> >> It even more combines intersecting paths in some boolean union style. E.g. >> just enter a text with a stroke of huge width, and then convert and you will >> see that the resulting outline path is an offset line around the text. >> >> Do you know how to accomplish a similar procedure in Batik? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Marius >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://batik.2283329.n4.nabble.com/Convert-stroke-to-boollean-unioned-path-tp4655692.html >> Sent from the Batik - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> > > -- > Craig S. Kaplan > University of Waterloo > http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/ > "If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, > not the capital, of nature." -- Ronald Wright > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
