Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Rob Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can batik be used to work out the bounds of a text element in an SVG doc? > > For example return a Rectangle2D object? Or the width and height of > the element (a corner x,y co-ordinates are already defined in the > element, once I have the width and height to then I know the bounds)
Did you try elt.getBBox(); // check the API, the syntax is from my memory > > I found the SVGTextElementBridge class which does have a getTextBounds > method that returns a Rectangle2D. This is exactly what I'm looking > for. HOWEVER, how do I initialise an instance of this class properly? > and for it to operate on the SVG text element I'm interested in? Those classes are already initialized by Batik when you enabling the boot css stuff. In Batik wiki / website there should be a documentation regarding SVG boot css (forget the url), from there you can get access to the bridge and bridgeContext class. Note: those Bridge/BridgeContext and GVT is low level Batik graphics rendering, normally people does not go into that deep, people are usually at the SVG DOM API level. Cheers Tonny Kohar -- Sketsa SVG Editor imagine, design, create ... http://www.kiyut.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
