I don't have such a link in my head, but if you look at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/index.html#minitoc I'm sure you'll see the coordinate system described. As for why?... ;-)
best Martin On 14 June 2011 17:21, Dieter <dieter.krach...@googlemail.com> wrote: > yep...I meant flipped vertically or rotated 180 and flipped horizontally ;) > > Do you have a link where it is described that "SVG coordinates are > upside down wrt cartesian" and the reasons why this was done? > > Cheers, > Dieter > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Martin Jacobson > <jacobson.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I haven't had time to verify your example, but I suspect you'll find >> that the fonts aren't rotated 180º, but flipped vertically; don't >> forget that SVG coordinates are upside down wrt cartesian. This annoys >> me on a regular basis! >> >> Martin >> >> On 14 June 2011 16:56, Dieter <dieter.krach...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just converted several fonts to SVG. When I extract the d="" element >>> from several glyphs and insert them in a SVG document I notice that >>> all glyphs are rotated clockwise by 180 degrees. Here is an example >>> for the glyph "7": >>> >>> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> >>> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN" >>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd";> >>> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> >>> <path d="M219 -2Q194 0 162 0Q130 0 92 -4Q122 44 157 105T229 237T304 >>> 387T376 550Q359 551 342 551Q325 551 306 551Q242 551 175 548T36 537Q38 >>> 582 29 628Q155 623 269 623Q384 623 490 629Q496 569 492 >>> 541Q466 509 440 466T388 374T338 273T292 172T252 77T219 -2Z" >>> fill="green" stroke="blue" stroke-width="3" /> >>> </svg> >>> >>> >>> Is this normal? Why are the glyphs rotated? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dieter >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> From my MacBook Pro >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > -- >From my MacBook Pro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
