Benjamin, try putting the flowPara into a flowDiv. PS: please don't cross-post between batik-users and batik-dev. All Batik devs are also here on batik-users.
On 02.02.2011 13:16:07 Benjamin Diedrichsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently using batik and pdftranscoder.jar to transform svg documents > into pdf. Recently I tried the new text flowing features of SVG 1.2 and was > pretty disappointed by the results. It seems that the flowRegion ant > flowPara elements and so forth are silently ignored. At least the output is > very different to what I would expect. On > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/dev/svg12.html I read the SVG 1.2 should > be supported in the branch. I compiled the latest trunk and use it to > transform the SVG but the text just doesn't get rendered and the flowRegion > is always shown as a black box. > > From what I've read in the mailing lists and on the batik webpage, the text > flowing features are supported or at least should be. So, what am I doing > wrong here? > > Here is a very simple example that I actually took from the w3c page and > that I am working with. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.2//EN" " > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"> > <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xml=" > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" > width="742.6771734" height="969.4488284" version="1.2" xml:space="preserve"> > <title>Basic textflow</title> > <rect x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fill="yellow"/> > <flowRoot font-size="16"> > <flowRegion> > <path d="M100,50L50,300L250,300L300,50z" > style="background-color:#111111" fill="#111111"/> > </flowRegion> > <flowPara>Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow; creeps in this > petty pace from day to day, until the last syllable of recorded time. > > And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. > </flowPara> > </flowRoot> > <path d="M90,40L40,270L260,270L210,40z" fill="none" stroke="black" > stroke-width="5"/> > </svg> > > Anybody manages to transform this to pdf with proper text layout? Any > comments on the current status of the SVG 1.2 support? > > Here is part of my java code: > > Reader domReader = DOMUtilities.createXMLDocumentReader(is); > > SAXSVGDocumentFactory saxDocFactory = new SAXSVGDocumentFactory( > "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser"); > SVGDocument svgDocument = saxDocFactory.createSVGDocument(null, > domReader); > > > PDFTranscoder pdfTranscoder = new PDFTranscoder(); > TranscoderInput tInput = new > TranscoderInput(svgDocument); > TranscoderOutput tOutput = new > TranscoderOutput(tmpBout); > > pdfTranscoder.transcode(tInput, tOutput); > > Any help and comments will be rewarded with pure gratefulness. Regards, > Benni Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org