What Bjoern said. By the way, I would like to see this functionality exposed at some point in the future so that web-based graphical editors (like SVG-edit) can convert SVG text to paths...
Jeff --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoe...@...> wrote: > > * 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:bjo...@... · 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: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -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: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
