On Tuesday 09 September 2008 11:57:45 Jeremias Maerki wrote: > On 03.09.2008 21:00:10 Samuel Penn wrote: > > If so, is there a way around it? My plan is to use a small > > number of SVGs a large number of times, so being able to embed > > an image once, and simply reference it each time it is used in > > the PDF would greatly reduce space. > > If you switch to FOP 0.95, as Pascal suggested, the file sizes should > get smaller as FOP should be able to paint more text as text rather than > convert almost all text to graphics. Of course, you'll only profit if > there's text in the SVG.
The ones that will be repeated most have no text (think flags for bullet points, or symbols to denote different types of items in lists) so it probably won't help much, but every bit helps. > But for the issue about only including the SVG once, that is currently > not possible. We've got a task hanging around somewhere to generate the > SVG as a form object in PDF. That way it could be reused multiple times. > The tricky part here is to preserve any links inside the SVG and to make > them appear in the right place on the page. This would have to be solved > first. Nobody seems to have had an itch, yet, I'm afraid. Okay, fair enough. Lacking itching powder, maybe I should start looking to see if some of my needs can be met with symbol fonts. Thanks. -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam. Mail/IM (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
