Interesting Matt. I bet that Cairo/Librsvg are being used in Inkscape as well.
I wonder if the PostScript or PDF output from Cairo might work better with Illustrator? dane On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Matt Bartolome wrote: > I've done some SVG rendering directly with cairo and it never worked > right for me when viewed in Illustrator. Same thing as you describe, > huge text and scaling issues. Switched to Inkscape and it looks > perfect. > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Jamie > Robertson<[email protected]> wrote: >> Dane- the svg output renders fine in firefox, inkscape, or as a >> pdf. I >> should have checked those first.. So, it's definitely a font issue >> in >> Illustrator. The weird thing is that even when i copy all of the >> DejaVu >> fonts that mapnik uses into the windows fonts directory, and >> Illustrator >> loads them (I can use all of the fonts as a regular text element), >> Illustrator still won't use them when I import the svg from >> nik2img. Any >> ideas on why it might not be picking those fonts up? (same issue in >> Illustrator on a mac) >> >> Also, when importing the svg to illustrator, I get an error that >> says "The >> following items could not be imported properly" and "clipping will >> be lost >> on roundtrip to Tiny". It then imports the svg, and everything >> looks fine >> except for the text. >> >> A quick search on this error tells me that "The graphic you are >> working with >> contains a clipping mask. The alert is simply telling you that the >> clipping >> mask will not survive the trip back to SVG Tiny" However, i think >> the text >> fill/font issue is unrelated because to this error because i get it >> even >> when i create an svg of the map without any text labels. >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Dane Springmeyer >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Wow, never seen that before. >>> >>> Jamie, do you get this when rendering to PDF as well or when you >>> view the >>> SVG output in some other application like Firefox or Inkscape? >>> >>> Can you post your relevant XML as well? >>> >>> Dane >>> >>> >>> On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Jamie Robertson wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all- I'm having an issue with .svg export in Nik2img. The >>>> ouput svg >>>> is really nice, except for text labels. The halos for the text >>>> (white on >>>> the attached jpg) are placed, sized, and rendered correctly. But >>>> the text >>>> fills (black) are enormous (take up a the entire exported area >>>> and then >>>> some) and stacked upon each other. Notice the letter "V" which is >>>> selected >>>> in Illustrator on the attached jpg. When i output this same xml >>>> file to >>>> .png, everything renders correctly, including the text fills. >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jamie Robertson >>>> >>>> < >>>> nik2img_text_fill_issue >>>> .jpg>_______________________________________________ >>>> Mapnik-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >> >> _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
