* ddailey wrote: >I just can't remember. I seem to recall a DOM interface or function in >SVG that takes as input a character (i.e., a text string of length one) >rendered in a given font-family and returns the path coordinates of the >outline of that object. (something like "w".toPath(ariel, 100) --> "0,0 >50,100 100,0 150,100 200,0 200,5 150,105, 100,5 50,105 0,5 z" Certainly >we can get its bounding box, and certainly there are utilities in >Inkscape and Illustrator to do that, but how about in plain old SVG with >JavaScript? I would like to make some pseudo-random distortions to a >typeface but can't remember the command, if there ever was one.
There is no such function in SVG 1.1 or SVG Tiny 1.2. Also note that a glyph is not necessarily a single path, with SVG fonts you can have more or less arbitrary content to make up a glyph. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ ------------------------------------ ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
