Thomas, thank you, that clarifies the situation. I am moving the thread to fop-dev for further considerations.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Manuel, > > Manuel Mall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/13/2006 11:04:59 PM: > > I need to rasterize SVGs but need in some cases apply non-uniform > > scaling. The transformers I have seen and sample code I came across > > always uses uniform scaling, i.e. preserve the aspect ratio. > > No the transformers respect the 'preserveAspectRatio' attribute > on the root SVG element. The default for this is "xMidYMid meet" > if this is set to "none" then the Transcoders should stretched > non-uniformly. > > > The context is that I am currently writing a new renderer for FOP > > for an > > > > output format that doesn't support SVG. Therefore I need to convert > > the SVG into a raster format and for SVGs included as > > external-graphics I need to be able to 'obey' the possibly > > non-uniform scaling specified on the external-graphics element in > > the XSL-FO document. > > This is an interesting case of 'who should win'. Yes it is interesting - what do fop-dev's think about this? What does the PDF SVG transcoder do in this case? I assume from FOP's perspective XSL-FO should win? Same as for other images formats which we happily distort if the FO tells us so? > > > Is there an easy way to do this? > > The simplest thing is to adjust the preserveAspectRatio > attribute on the root of the SVG tree before passing it to > the transcoder. > Manuel
