Samy Thank you. Not sure what I was thinking of - the solution is obvious in retrospect - I was just barking up the wrong tree.
BTW b22gate refers to Gate B22 at some airport I was at when I created the account - no relation to Bill at all. b22 --- In [email protected], "Samuel Dagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Bill Tutu Gates, > Usually it does not help to invent rules, better stick to the > existing ones. If you want to get the text centered midway along the > path then use: > <text ..... text-anchor="middle"> > <textPath ..... startOffset="50%">gaga</textPath> > </text> > Have fun, Samy > > --- In [email protected], "b22gate" <b22gate@> wrote: > > > > Hi > > I'm trying to find a nice way of presenting text on a path. > > > > I don't know the length of the path, but I want to add text that is > > either centered midway along the path or padded with white-space to > > fill the whole length of the path. > > > > Using theAdobe viewer I tried this: > > <textPath text-anchor='middle' dx='50%' ...>gaga</textPath> > > > > This appeared to align the text so that the end was at the mid-point > > of the path. Am I doing something wrong; is there some sublety that > > I'm missing, or is there a bug in the viewer? > > > > b22 > > > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
