On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:55:16 -0500
Christian Convey <christian.con...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

I guess it depends on how the style attribute on the svg element was
specified.

> 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:&apos;Dialog&apos;; 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
> >
> > --
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