SVG font is not used when rendering to PNG

[Alexander Kolesnikov]

Phew... Have to give up for a moment. Spend a whole day trying to get an SVG font used properly when rendering a PNG image. I searched the Nabble forum and saw that other people had a similar problem, but couldn't figure out what goes wrong in my case. I am creating the document using DOM. Here is how the reference to the font is added: ServletContext ctx  = getServletContext(); Element defs = doc.createElementNS(svgNS, "defs"); Element style = doc.createElementNS(svgNS, "style"); style.setAttributeNS(null, "type", "text/css"); CDATASection fontRef = doc.createCDATASection(                 "@font-face { font-family: 'ForgottenFuturist'; src: url(\"" +                 ctx.getRealPath("/ForgottenFuturist.svg") +                 "#ForgottenFuturist\") format(svg) }"); style.appendChild(fontRef); defs.appendChild(style); root.appendChild(defs); ... greeting.setAttributeNS(null, "font-family", "ForgottenFuturist"); After something like a few hundreds of failed attempts I changed output from PNG to SVG, to see what happens in the document. This is what I found: <defs>  <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"><[EMAIL PROTECTED] { font-family: 'ForgottenFuturist'; src: url("/Users/sundraw/Documents/workspace/SVGLifeGraph/ForgottenFuturist.svg#ForgottenFuturist") format(svg) }]]></style> <linearGradient x1="0%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"                         y1="0%" x2="0%" y2="100%" xlink:type="simple"                         xlink:actuate="onLoad" id="v_grad" xlink:show="other">             <stop stop-color="darkred" offset="0%"/>             <stop stop-color="#fff" offset="100%"/> </linearGradient> </defs> What could be wrong here? Cheers, Alexander