Hi Peter, Peter Hull <peterhul...@gmail.com> wrote on 02/03/2011 08:33:07 AM:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, <thomas.dewe...@kodak.com> wrote: > > It's getting clipped by the 'symbol' element's clipping rectangle. > > If you read the symbol and use sections of the SVG Spec: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html > Now I've read that, I've realised that I don't need to use 'symbol' > anyway for my purposes, just reference a rect defined in a <defs> > section. The rect of course is not subject to clipping like the symbol > contents inside their implicit svg. Right or you can use a 'g'. > Follow up question - why are the rect's right and bottom edges not > also clipped? I see that the implicit svg will be assigned > width="100%" height="100%" because no explicit size was specified in > the use element, so does the calculation of a rect's size include its > nominal width + half a stroke? The 100% is percent of the _containing_ viewport (not the child content). In this case the viewport is established by the outermost 'svg' element. So it ends up establishing a clip rect from 0,0 to the width and height of the root SVG element (256,256) in this case. Thomas DeWeese | CDG Advanced Development | Eastman Kodak Company | 343 State Street | Rochester, NY 14650-0128 | thomas.dewe...@kodak.com | 585 724-0294 | www.kodak.com
