Hi,
The following svg file crashes out the PDF renderer.... I hand wrote the file, so I dont know if is a bug in the XML. Adobe's plugin seems to render it OK. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd" > <svg xml-space="preserve" preserveAspectRatio="xMaxYMaxmeet" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" > <defs> <pattern id="pattern" x="0" y="0" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="185" height="200"> <g transform="rotate(45 100 15) translate(50 50)" > <g fill="#000066" stroke="#000066"> <text x="0" y="33.75" font-family="Helvetica" font-size="20">Pattern Fill</text> </g> </g> </pattern> </defs> <g id="overlay" opacity="0.50"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="900" height="470" fill="url(#pattern)" stroke="black" stroke-width="0"> </g> </svg> Heres the FO <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <fo:root font-family="Univers" font-size="9pt" text-align="center" xmlns:fo ="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master margin-bottom="25pt" margin-left="100pt" margin-right="50pt" margin-top="75pt" master-name="simple" page-height ="210mm" page-width="297mm"> <fo:region-body margin-bottom="50pt"/> <fo:region-after extent="25pt"/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-name="simple"> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after"> <fo:block font-size="7pt" text-align-last="center"> <fo:page-number/> </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block> <fo:instream-foreign-object> <svg:svg height="150mm" width="250mm" xmlns:svg ="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <svg:image height="478" transform ="scale(0.6)" width="1145" xlink:href="file:///m:/overlay.txt"/> </svg:svg> </fo:instream-foreign-object> </fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> org.apache.fop.apps.Fop svgtest.fo svgtest.pdf [INFO]: FOP 0.20.2 [INFO]: building formatting object tree [INFO]: [1] [ERROR]: unknown font Univers,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR]: unknown font Univers,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR]: unknown font Univers,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR]: unknown font Univers,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR]: unknown font Univers,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR]: unknown font Univers,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR]: svg graphic could not be built: java.lang.Object java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Object at org.apache.batik.bridge.SVGImageElementBridge.createRasterImageNode(SVGImageElementBridge.java:167) at org.apache.batik.bridge.SVGImageElementBridge.createGraphicsNode(SVGImageElementBridge.java:109) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(GVTBuilder.java:167) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(GVTBuilder.java:133) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.build(GVTBuilder.java:66) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderSVGDocument(PDFRenderer.java:413) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderSVGArea(PDFRenderer.java:382) at org.apache.fop.svg.SVGArea.render(SVGArea.java:58) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderForeignObjectArea(PDFRenderer.java:366) at org.apache.fop.layout.inline.ForeignObjectArea.render(ForeignObjectArea.java:50) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderLineArea(AbstractRenderer.java:223) at org.apache.fop.layout.LineArea.render(LineArea.java:162) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderBlockArea(AbstractRenderer.java:192) at org.apache.fop.layout.BlockArea.render(BlockArea.java:82) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderAreaContainer(AbstractRenderer.java:158) at org.apache.fop.layout.ColumnArea.render(ColumnArea.java:33) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderSpanArea(AbstractRenderer.java:58) at org.apache.fop.layout.SpanArea.render(SpanArea.java:53) at org.apache.fop.render.AbstractRenderer.renderBodyAreaContainer(AbstractRenderer.java:114) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.renderPage(PDFRenderer.java:728) at org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer.render(PDFRenderer.java:696) at org.apache.fop.apps.StreamRenderer.queuePage(StreamRenderer.java:206) at org.apache.fop.layout.AreaTree.addPage(AreaTree.java:81) at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.PageSequence.format(PageSequence.java:305) at org.apache.fop.apps.StreamRenderer.render(StreamRenderer.java:191) at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:178) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.endElement(SAXParser.java:1398) at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callEndElement(XMLValidator.java:1019) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1256) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:381) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:948) at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:459) at org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:72) at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19) [INFO]: Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer Best Regards, James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]