Definitely high on my list prior to the release. Thanks for the hints.
I'll look into it ASAP.
On 14.12.2005 15:13:49 thomas.deweese wrote:
> Hi Jeremias,
>
> Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/14/2005 08:33:47 AM:
>
> > Given the number of bugs fixed and the feedback we got, I think it
> > should be safe to do another release tagged "beta".
>
> If you want to do this, then we should 'fix' the PDFTranscoder
> for SVG text. It appears that the main problem with Batik 1.6 is
> that it calls 'registerBridges' in the base class constructor before
> the subclass can 'record' it's updated bridges. I believe it is
> possible to fix this by replacing:
>
> super(userAgent);
>
> with:
> super(init(userAgent, fontInfo, linkTransform))
>
> Where init is more or less:
>
> UserAgent init(UserAgent ua, FontInfo fi, AffineTransform lt) {
> this.fontInfo = fi;
> this.linkTransform = lt;
> return ua;
> }
>
> This will not fix all cases (if a new BridgeContext is constructed,
> for example to handle an internal SVG image, it will not inherit the
> 'updated' bridges, for that to work properly people will need the SVN
> Batik).
>
> [Having to employ such ugly tactics to get subclass code run before
> baseclass constructor code demonstrates how silly the 'super' must
> be first - compiler restriction is].
Jeremias Maerki
