RE: [svg-developers] real world unit vs screen resolution or display device

2005-02-07 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Barend_K=F6bben?=
I am sorry to see that you got surprised by it, but please note that it's NOT an SVG issue, it's true for any screen-drawing... If you state that mm (...) must be displayed exactly so on the screen - independent of the screen resolution or the display device, you are asking an impossible

RE: [svg-developers] Re: real world unit vs screen resolution or display device

2005-02-07 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Barend_K=F6bben?=
Hi Maciek (...) TwipsPerPixel for both vertical and horizontal directions. And it is exactly what I thought. Hmm, I don't think so. It probably is on most systems quite close to what you thought. But even VB on an MS system cannot truly garantuee this in any way. If I want i can distort

RE: [svg-developers] Save Drawing in mysql 4.1x database

2005-02-03 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Barend_K=F6bben?=
That's interesting, I do at the moment have a student working on just that (only using Java instead of PHP). Our idea is to use an existing svg application where you can digitise a polygon , then using postURL in the SVG to get that SVG element to a servlet or JSP. This servlet then is going

RE: [svg-developers] Save Drawing in mysql 4.1x database

2005-02-02 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Barend_K=F6bben?=
Hi Burkhard, do you mean by 'save my drawing (only polygons) to mysql-database' that you want the SVG code for drawing the polygons saved in MySQL tables? In that case, where does teh SVG drawing code come from in the first place? Or that you want to generate polygons from the MySQL...?