On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Ian Schneider <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The implementation I came up with renders a question mark using the ttf
>> specifier and makes a better, single log message. I'm not too happy with
>> the way the mark looks, however and I'm thinking a more 'standard' (if
>> there is such a thing) missing image icon would be better. I suppose this
>> could be included and referenced via a jar URL?
>>
>
> Hmm... the TTF font you are using would have to be part of the renderer
> jar, there is no standard java font available on all jdks.
>
>
This crossed my mind, so I used ttf://SansSerif#0x003F as I understood this
'logical font' will be guaranteed to map to some font.
Anyways, reading the spec, there are some clues of what we migth do:
>
> "If the Graphic element is omitted from the parent element, then nothing
> will be plotted"
>
> "The default if neither an ExternalGraphic nor a Mark is specified is to
> use the default
> mark of a “square” with a 50%-gray fill and a black outline, with a size
> of 6 pixels,"
>
>
Thanks for seeing that - I missed it.
> So, what if we have a Graphic, but none of the various external graphics
> in it works?
> Given that the normal behavior is to ignore the ones that are not working
> and move on,
> I'd say the behavior closest to the spec suggestions is to act as if no
> external graphic
> nor mark was provided, and do the 50% gray fill and black outline 6px
> square?
>
Makes sense to me and seems inline with the intentions of the spec.
--
Ian Schneider
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