Re: Fonts and Characters in svg

[Lars Eirik Rønning]

I managed to get this working..
I have to provide a mapping for the input characters from the user to the
unicode lookup.
If anyone is interested i exported all glyphs from illustrator and then
replaced the input characters with the unicode equivilants.

Lars

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Lars Eirik Rønning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi.
> I need to be able to use the &oslash and other scandinavian characters in
> my svg.
> When i try to add these to my illustrator -> svg file, they are correctly
> exported, thus i get no error when using the batik-rasterizer to pdf.
> However if i do not include these characters i get an exception
>
> Enclosed Exception:
> Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
>         at
> org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.transcode(XMLAbstractTranscoder.java:136)
>         at
> org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.transcode(SVGAbstractTranscoder.java:156)
>         at
> org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.SVGConverter.transcode(SVGConverter.java:1001)
>         at
> org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.SVGConverter.execute(SVGConverter.java:717)
>         at org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.Main.execute(Main.java:938)
>         at org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.Main.main(Main.java:992)
> ... error (SVGConverter.error.while.rasterizing.file)
>
> The thing is I need to be able to replace my "static" text in the svg with
> dynamic text from users.
> Typically the placeholder will only say : Add text.
> This will then when used runtime be replaced with &oslash and other non
> english/us charachters.
>
> I have tried to export as svg fonts with both all glyphs and none in
> illustrator.
>
> Hope someone is able to help me with this.
> Could it be that i need to convert the oslash to a unicode character or
> something similar?
>
> Lars
>