That's great, thanks. Let us know what you find out.

On Sep 27, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Superstring Media wrote:

> I am not the owner of SVGSalamander but I worked with the owner to create our 
> webfont converter solution. The most I can do is ask him if he might consider 
> this. I will work on this and let you know.
> 
> Thom
> 
> 
> On 2010-09-27, at 12:57 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Wrapping SVGSalamander is great, I look forward to that feature!
>> 
>> Actually, I was hoping you might consider doing this.  :-)  SVGSalamander is 
>> LGPL, which means that we can't legally include it in the platform for 
>> licensing reasons. However, it would make a great "add-on", possibly as a 
>> project hosted on Google Code (where some other related projects already 
>> live, such as Pivot/JFree).
>> 
>>> What we do is use SVGSalamander to parse the SVG webfont then render the 
>>> glyphs in the webfont to images. This prepares the symbols in advance by 
>>> pre-rendering them at a given size, color and hints including graphic 
>>> effects.
>>> 
>>> Then to render the symbol images a Graphics2D and XY location need to be 
>>> specified. If the score surface is a StackPane I would expect to be able to 
>>> target a given layer Panel by passing a specific Panel's Graphic2D to the 
>>> symbol render method, right?
>> 
>> Yup, that should work. Though if you have already converted it to an image, 
>> you might be able to simply use ImageView to display it. Alternatively, you 
>> could write your own component that is capable of drawing the individual 
>> images (kind of like TextArea draws glyphs).
>> 
>> 
> 

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