On May 28, 2006, at 19:58, Johan Persson wrote:
> I'm still so surprised about this omission since it basically
> renders SVG
> useless for anything involving graphics with TTF fonts and texts
> (without
> resorting to things like a fixed font where one could calculate an
> approximate bounding box outside the viewer used and hope for the
> best).
>
> One of the replies to my original posting mention that there are no
> plans to
> add anything like this to the upcoming 1.2 specs.
>
> Can anyone share any light why this humungus omission has come to be?
SVG is used for a hugely varied amount of things, therefore someone's
humongous omission is someone else's trifle feature.
Unless I've missed something, what you describe can be done in
script: you can always ask for the bbox of text, as well as a number
of other aspects. If it were to become declarative (as in Cam's
excellent constraints work) I would expect that it would live in a
specification separate from SVG so that it could be reused elsewhere
(I sure have at times wanted to use something like that with HTML/CSS
as well).
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Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
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