Thanks, adding "px" seems to have fixed it. Does this mean Batik is at fault for not specifiny "px" in the SVG file it produced? Or is that something I'm supposed to tell Batik to do?
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:47 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwa...@anomaly.org> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:20:49 -0500 > Christian Convey <christian.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm new to SVG and Batik, so I was wondering if a problem I'm having >> is to be expected. >> >> I'm writing a Batik-based program creates boxes with text inside them. >> On Chromium version, "8.0.552.224 (68599) Ubuntu 10.10" everything >> looks great. >> >> But on Firefox 3.6.13, the box isn't always wide enough to contain my >> text. The degree of goofiness changes as I tell Firefox to zoom >> in/out. > > Firefox is actually picky where lengths (including font size) are > concerned. If you don't provide a unit, many SVG viewing tools assume > pixels, Firefox discards the value as invalid. > > Try making the font size "12px" instead of "12" and see if it helps. > > G. Wade > >> Is this to be expected? >> >> (Note: I'm not just crossing my fingers and hoping for correct >> sizing. I'm using font metrics in my Java code to size the box >> appropriately to the particular text.) >> >> In case it's useful, here's an example: >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN' >> 'http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd'> >> <svg xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; style="fill-opacity:1; >> color-rendering:auto; color-interpolation:auto; stroke:black; >> text-rendering:auto; stroke-linecap:square; stroke-miterlimit:10; >> stroke-opacity:1; shape-rendering:auto; fill:black; >> stroke-dasharray:none; font-weight:normal; stroke-width:1; >> font-family:'Dialog'; font-style:normal; >> stroke-linejoin:miter; font-size:12; stroke-dashoffset:0; >> image-rendering:auto;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; >> ><!--Generated by the Batik Graphics2D SVG Generator--><defs >> >id="genericDefs" >> /><g >> ><g style="font-family:monospace; font-size:10;" >> ><rect x="0" y="0" width="86.2256" style="fill:none;" rx="2.5" >> ry="2.5" height="64.9219" >> /><text x="10" xml:space="preserve" y="21.6406" >> style="stroke:none;" >> >AAddH</text >> ><text x="10" xml:space="preserve" y="38.2812" >> >style="stroke:none;" 123</text >> ><text x="10" xml:space="preserve" y="54.9219" >> >style="stroke:none;" Foo.if1(42)</text >> ></g >> ></g >> ></svg > > -- > We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters > will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the > Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensky, UCB > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
