Hi Werner, Thomas, we are actually using our own solution for text-layout (incl. kerning) and text-rendering. It should be pixel-identical on every platform although I haven't tested it. Maybe you want to build something similar to work around your problems.
Cheers, Dieter On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Thomas DeWeese <thomas.dewe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Werner, > Yes, text renders differently on different platforms, and yes this is > very annoying, and no I don't know of anyway to work around it. > It causes all sorts of headaches with the Batik automated testing system (it > more or less means that you need a set of reference images for > every platform). > > Thomas > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Werner Guttmann > <werner.guttm...@indoqa.com> wrote: >> >> No, I haven't yet (and will), but it looks like the problem seems to be >> with some SVG text elements and their rendering on various platforms. >> >> Thanks >> Werner >> >> >> On 15.05.2012 19:05, Joel Uckelman wrote: >>> >>> Thus spake Werner Guttmann: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> in one of our projects, we are currently using the PNGTranscoder to >>>> produce a PNG from an SVG, and everything works just fine (in terms of >>>> expected output, content, ...). As part of some recent testing, we came >>>> to realize that the PNGs produced are of differing physical byte sizes >>>> on different machines. >>>> >>>> E.g. a PNG image of dimension 1620x1118 px one one box has a size of >>>> 10,836 bytes, whereas a second server produces 10,864 bytes worth of PNG >>>> from the very same SVG (using the very same binary and thus process). Is >>>> this something we should be expecting, and if so, why is this the case ? >>> >>> >>> That's not many bytes difference. Have you compared the PNGs in a hex >>> editor? It could be that one of the metadata fields has some system- >>> specific information in it. >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
