On 11/2/06, brucerindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I was interested until I looked at the specs on
> your site. I am currently using Batik to convert SVG to PDF and
> thought Mars would be a far easier solution.
>
Depending on what you are doing, and when/how you plan to deliver
your solution - it might be. Though certainly it's not something you
could easily jump on today!
> 1. No CSS attrubutes in SVG. While XML attributes are possible, it
> is just easier in some cases to use style attributes in SVG. The lack
> of support in Mars will make this very difficult.
>
We are simply following the SVG committee itself in the movement
away from CSS to attributes - because attributes are more in line with
XML philosophy and can be MUCH more easily validated & schema'd.
> 2. No textPath support. This is a killer for me. PostScript support
> s this - why not Mars??
>
PDF isn't Postscript.
PDF isn't a dynamic reflow format.
textPath requires a text layout engine and that isn't what PDF is about.
> 3. No text-anchor support except "start". Specifing the center of a
> piece of text and having it centered regardless of the length is
> essential.
>
See comment above about reflow and layout.
> 4. No marker support. I use markers hundreds of times in a display.
>
I suspect that the reason for this is similar to the above - the
need for dynamic content - but I don't know for certain. I will,
however, find out for you.
> 5. No font selection. I can't even specify font-size="bold" ?
>
Font selection is fully supported - in the same way that it is
for PDF and Postscript.
What you are asking for is font "styling", which isn't a concept
in the PDF and Postscript world...thus it's not part of Mars.
> 6. No filter support.
>
See above comments about dynamic layout/view.
> 7. color spaces. This whole section confused me but it appears you
> can't use the standard RGB or HSV spaces and have to create Adobe
> stardard binary files with lookup tables in separate directories in
> the archive.
>
Sorry about the confusion here...You can, OF COURSE, use standard
RGB values for the colors using any of the standard SVG forms. It's
only for those needing more "complex colors" that you have to go
fancier.
Leonard
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