Marius, I don't think there's a way to do this directly in Batik, but Batik is written in Java and Java offers some support for tracing paths. If you can extract a java.awt.geom.Path2D from Batik (and I think there's a way to do this, though the Batik source base might still use the older GeneralPath class), then you can define a java.awt.Stroke object (for example, a BasicStroke) and invoke its createStrokedShape method passing in the Path2D as an argument. That Stroked Shape is the enclosing path that you're looking for. If you need to compute booleans on Shapes, you can use the java.awt.geom.Area class. I can't speak to how reliable and robust their code is, but I've used it a couple of times in the past without a problem.
Hope that helps. > Inkscape has a method to convert strokes into its enclosing paths as can be > read on http://inkscape.org/doc/advanced/tutorial-advanced.html and easily > tried within the software. > > It even more combines intersecting paths in some boolean union style. E.g. > just enter a text with a stroke of huge width, and then convert and you will > see that the resulting outline path is an offset line around the text. > > Do you know how to accomplish a similar procedure in Batik? > > Kind regards, > > Marius > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://batik.2283329.n4.nabble.com/Convert-stroke-to-boollean-unioned-path-tp4655692.html > Sent from the Batik - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > -- Craig S. Kaplan University of Waterloo http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/ "If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature." -- Ronald Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
