At 12:09 -0400 19/10/11, Erik Dahlstrom wrote: >Maybe I wasn't clear enough: any transform may affect the size of the text >on screen... > >The solution that was proposed was to use >text-rendering="geometricPrecision" to mean that you want the >smoothly transition. However, this doesn't yet solve the problem >since that fix has not yet been made in all the different browsers. >Note that geometricPrecision can lead to text that is harder to >read, and the spec says that by default more importance should be >given to text legibility, >see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#TextRenderingProperty.
Thank you for the full explanation, Erik. >A workaround could be to convert the outlines to paths e.g in Inkscape, >and then animate those. Ah good, so that would work?, and now I wonder if this is not already being done in Firefox and Opera, because another difference I have just noticed is that in Safari (*Mac*, to answer Raks A's question) you can copy the animated text as text, whereas in Firefox and Opera you can't, as though it had indeed been converted to a path or paths. Maybe in practice people would rarely want to copy animated text, but in principle SVG text is copyable. Incidentally I am by no means a Mac Safari groupie, and while in this case the text is both smooth and copyable, it slides out of view at the end of the animation, whereas in F and O it ends up central. JD ------------------------------------ ----- 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/
