[svg-developers] print SVG from FF3 into PDF, opacity problems

2009-01-06 Thread André M . Winter
hello, svg seems to print well out of firefox 3 (also fits to page orientation ) but it totally igonores tranparencies. eg. here: rect x=55 y=55 width=555 height=455 fill=red/ rect x=255 y=255 width=555 height=455 fill=green opacity=.4/ anyone observed this of knows more about this issue?

[svg-developers] errors with getURL in ASV3+MSIE8b2

2008-12-23 Thread André M . Winter
hello, i did upgrade to IE8 for compatibilty tests and it seems getURL() doesn't work as expected. has anyone observed this already? until MSIE7 i used a combined function checking for getURL or xmlHttpRequest availabilty like in this file: http://www.carto.net/temp/geturlmsie8/test1.svg it

[svg-developers] FF2 XMLHttpRequest with linked JPG dosn't show JPG, FF3 okay

2008-11-27 Thread André M . Winter
hello, i have a backward compatibility problem: in a mapping project i load pregenerated tiles with XMLHttpRequest(). those are SVG1.1 files with one linked background JPG. the XLINK-namespace is present in both the main and the laoded tile. this works fine in IE6-8,Opera9,FF3 and basically

[svg-developers] Re: Text Scaling in Opera

2008-01-29 Thread André M . Winter
hi, are there any news here? seems as if Opera (now v9.25) ignores nested SVG for font sizes. the shown size just is the same as if the text sits in the root element. bug or feature? andré --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, simonshutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan, But not on

Re: [svg-developers] compressed external js with FF3?

2007-11-18 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
thank you björn, no luck at all... (sometimes it's sufficient to call the file e.g. example.js.gz). no it isn't. just tested on an apache server with not gz mime type set: Error: illegal character Source File: http://192.168.0.3/webtest/menutest.js.gz Line: 1 Source Code: ??o=G also

[svg-developers] compressed external js with FF3?

2007-11-16 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi list, is there a way of linking a compressed javascript file into an svg document that way under Firefox3? script type=text/ecmascript xlink:href=compressedData.js / or do i have to tell someting more to the browser? file is compressed and should also work locally if possible). thank you,

[svg-developers] Re: FF and Gran Paradiso refuse to open local SVG files (WinXP)

2007-10-03 Thread André M . Winter
hi, couldn't solve this problem in a clean way. full reinstall of FF2 and FF3a8 did the job. andré --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, André M. Winter - Carto.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan, if you are using nightlies this may be what is currently a recurring problem

[svg-developers] FF and Gran Paradiso refuse to open local SVG files (WinXP)

2007-10-01 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i thought i was immune against such problems but having to install several programs the past days i run into the situation that i cannot open local SVG files in Firefox or Gran Paradiso anymore on WinXP (serverbased anything is okay) settings in the win file associations are okay (Firefox

Re: [svg-developers] FF and Gran Paradiso refuse to open local SVG files (WinXP)

2007-10-01 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
Jonathan, if you are using nightlies this may be what is currently a recurring problem and filed as bug no nightly builds: FF2.0.0.7 and FF3.0a8 in their base, default and english version. andré -- ___ andre m. winter,

[svg-developers] Re: set new browser location by script in ASV3

2007-09-28 Thread André M . Winter
-developers@yahoogroups.com, André M. Winter - Carto.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am making an older interface FF3 and opera compatible and run into compatibilty problems with ... ASV3. i introduced Andreas Neumann's selectioList objet but want to change the browser window location

[svg-developers] set new browser location by script in ASV3

2007-09-20 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i am making an older interface FF3 and opera compatible and run into compatibilty problems with ... ASV3. i introduced Andreas Neumann's selectioList objet but want to change the browser window location when an element has been selected. one generally passes a function that could does

Re: [svg-developers] Re: why Renesis is developing SVG plugin?

2007-07-09 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
Dear Sanyaade, Adobe will open source its SVG plugin, so it is not going to be more or less impossible as ASV's rendering engine is a subset of Illustrator's rendering engine... this also is an explanation for ASV's redrawing slowness. andré --

[svg-developers] removing without removeChild works?

2007-04-12 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i am just wondering if this code to bring a clicked element to the top of its container group is correct: onclick=evt.target.parentNode.appendChild(evt.target) FF and ASV3 do what they are told, but is a previous removeChild() really obsolete? andré --

[svg-developers] AI 2 SVG export: text box problem

2007-03-07 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i need to translate some Illustrator-files into SVG. although being happy that i only need to go from AI2SVG (and not from freehand or Autocad or whatever), i have a problem with text boxes (the multiline text box when you just drag a rectangle with the text tool and type your text in

Re: [svg-developers] Re: AI 2 SVG export: text box problem

2007-03-07 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi domenico i know that, but i get the files like they are. it has already been drawn like this. andré In Illustrator you don't need to drag the text box like you do in InDesign before typing. You just click at the position you need. --

[svg-developers] onresize event-listener in FF2/3

2007-03-05 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, onresize works fine in MSIE/ASV and Opera but Firefox ignores it for v2 and v3a2 (but it works there for html-content).is this a bug or a feature, viz is there another event-listener for FF? thx, andré -- ___ andre m.

Re: [svg-developers] onresize event-listener in FF2/3

2007-03-05 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi björn, It would be good if you don't start new threads by responding to other threads (you are responding to both JavaScript programming tips and XBrowser (IV) Opera9 works! ( Evil clipping [bug?] ) neither of which is related to your issue). i don't understand what you mean here. what

Re: [svg-developers] Re: onresize event-listener in FF2/3

2007-03-05 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi andreas, thanky you. missed this. in short a way to restore the onresize function for FF may look like this: svg onresize=top.myResize() onload=try{window.addEventListener('resize',top.myResize,false)}catch(e){} .../ andré --

Re: [svg-developers] Headers visible in replies -- [was onresize event-listener in FF2/3]

2007-03-05 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, this is new for me too. where (progs) are those id-giving headers in use actually? (i am myself using thunderbird) this seems to me a good idea with no chance of getting ever observed. having such a mixed diversity of mail clients and as David says, it is much easier to reply and change

Re: [svg-developers] is object/ working in IE7 and ASV

2007-03-02 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGiframe.html http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGiframe.html . In it I pass the SVGDocument as an object from a small script in the SVG. i guess that is the way to go anyhow and i am using it since years. in my actual work i am

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Consumer price index evaluation tool using svg

2007-02-28 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi Andreas I remember having seen the same tool first at the german national office of statistics. Maybe the french office adopted that version. yes, look at the (c) in the right bottom corner... andré -- ___ andre m. winter,

[svg-developers] FF3.0a2 works great

2007-02-13 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i was just testing a map interface with FF2 and was disappointed while unloading a map and reloading another form the local filesystem. it took around 15sec. now FF3 (feb. 8th) does it in around 1sec and this over the web. this is faster than IE6/ASV3. mouse interactions work smooth,

Re: [svg-developers] FF3.0a2 works great

2007-02-13 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi tor, Some information about the SVG capabilities in 3.0a2 are listed in the following URL. Note that a number of SVG applications will have problems due to regressions caused by some tree-wide gecko changes. well, i reported my experience from a user perspective. i took a file out of my

Re: [svg-developers] Create complex custom line styles

2006-06-07 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
salut Sylvain, in SVG1.1 this only works with custom fonts that fit on text (textPath). have a look here for a two-colored line. by playing around with the font's definition you can add your circles, line segments etc. http://svg.carto.net/srv/sourceAndFileViewer.php?filecode=39715 --

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie Question - Lines/Paths

2005-03-10 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi chris, in holger's example you see the glyphs defined in the defs-section of the svg file. therein is defined all you need for size, letterspacing and stuff like that. ckeck out the w3c-pages about the attributes of font-face/ and see how this is tranlated in font-size when the font is

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie Question - Lines/Paths

2005-03-09 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
that is a cool example! how did you build the glyphs, by hand coding? andré Holger Will wrote: Hi Chris as André pointed out, you can use a font. here is a simple example: http://www.treebuilder.de/svg/font1/myfont.svg hope it helps Holger André M. Winter - Carto.net wrote: hi

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie Question - Lines/Paths

2005-03-09 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi chris, Hi André, Yes, that sounds like a sensible idea! ok... http://www.planethaste.co.uk/svghelp.htm samples 1 and 2 in your page should be doable with fonts, you should be able to use the original ( and rotate the glyph. for sample 3 you should also look into the markers of the

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Differences in browser Javascript engine vs ASV Javascript engine

2005-03-08 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, if i remember well, onbeforeunload (and others) are MSIE5 methods, no more supported in IE6. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications a6091 goetzens, tyrol, austria tel.:

Re: [svg-developers] disabling formerly selected functions

2005-03-08 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi halil, this seems to be a question related to scripting and not to SVG. however i don't understand how you select a function. you can call a function, it executes and that was it. if you have different functions attached to mouse events (such as click, mousover, etc...) then you can add

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie Question - Lines/Paths

2005-03-08 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, another way would be special created fonts that align along a path (textPath). but if you could link to a graphic where the final result of what you want is shown, maybe there will be more answers on this... andré -- ___

Re: [svg-developers] DOM Tree like Explorer

2005-03-07 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
some more detail, http://www.bli.uni-essen.de/svgs/BMEcat_12_T_NEW_CATALOG.svgz, found at http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/links/#cat20 andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications a6091

Re: [svg-developers] Printing small fonts

2005-01-23 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi mr. no-name-password, try text-rendering. see http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/text.svg. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, http://www.vectoreal.com/ SVG consulting and development http://www.carto.net/

Re: [svg-developers] Is getURL working asynchronously?

2005-01-20 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi hans, yes it is asynchronous. the way to call the alert from within parseResponse is the way to do it (at least i do). you could also take a look at the function addXML() described at http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/get_parse.shtml, doing the same stuff. having done a lot of

Re: [svg-developers] reading shape files and/or geodatabases

2005-01-13 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi sean, you can take a look at http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/utils/shp2svg/. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, http://www.vectoreal.com/ SVG consulting and development http://www.carto.net/ online cartography

Re: [svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-20 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, no, this doesn't work. you are not the first to ask. btw, raster images get referenced by xlink:href, thus they are external ressources and they are of a different type than svg is. a lot of hurdles... andré -- ___ andre m.

Re: [svg-developers] Re: SVG map example recap

2004-12-03 Thread andré m. winter
hi peter, What do you mean by generalize your map? Remove points based on the scale being displayed? what ever process the base data for your map comes out, it generally holds many many unneeded vertices (points). reasons may be automated vectorisation, description of curves as straigt

Re: [svg-developers] Re: updated SVG conformance testing results?

2004-11-19 Thread andré m. winter
hi peter, i don't know about an up2date and well done test that shows up results for different viewers. at least no free ones... andré Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything.

Re: [svg-developers] Path, line, polyline for Web Maps, which one is the best ?

2004-11-09 Thread andré m. winter
hi, no matter where your stuff does come from, use 'path' syntax for svg. with 'path' you can handle all other svg shapes and the syntax is the most flexible one (most important for mapping are: jump order [donuts and more than one polygon in in a path description], possibilty of use of

Re: [svg-developers] Path, line, polyline for Web Maps, which one is the best ?

2004-11-09 Thread andré m. winter
hi, don't forget that the Adobe svg viewer stops rendering when it encounters a syntax error within the code delivered to the client. that may result in the visual effect of stopping the download. speed itself is generally related to the data and its accuracy (= meticulous decimal places,

Re: [svg-developers] currentScale delay ???

2004-11-09 Thread andré m. winter
salut jean-david, yes it may be. especially when you do relative changes as root.currentScale = root.currentScale [*|+] some_value; also do not forget that any scale changes involves translate changes. and those (x,y,z) are applied one by one *and* they are interdependent *and* times for

Re: [svg-developers] currentScale delay ???

2004-11-09 Thread andré m. winter
if currentScale can be safely modified again ?? From what you said I assume not ... Just wants to be sure ... I have been almost a full week tracking a bug ... Thanks JD andré m. winter wrote: salut jean-david, yes it may be. especially when you do relative changes as root.currentScale

Re: [svg-developers] eventlistener

2004-11-04 Thread andré m. winter
hi olaf, you could check the event attribute's value and decide on that what to do next. if the eventhandler (eg. click) is not definded the according attribute (eg. onclick) should be empty. or am i missing something here? btw i stopped playing around with eventlisteners and use only the

Re: [svg-developers] controlling two identical svg files through javascript ??

2004-09-27 Thread André M. Winter
hi, you could use symbol and use. the symbol holds the entire pump. imagine the pump is defined only by strokes that cannot hold fills. therein you have your donut that could hold a fill but has the default green. then you could call pump1 as use xlink:href=pumpSymbol fill=green id=pump1/.

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Re: evt and setting new location after winXP SP2...

2004-09-26 Thread André M. Winter
hi jim, i may change the xlink:href attribute by DOM manip after doc load. but this is what onlick=location='location?blah='+jsval thankfully avoids. but only by relying on unspecified window object model methods, and SVG UA / parent browser communication - well, basically this sample

Re: [svg-developers] Google making browser - SVG?

2004-09-24 Thread andré m. winter
hi however google will build its browser, i fear their verve about supporting SVG will be limited. i just remember enqiries to them about supporting search and indexing on svg documents. they always argued with the too low market impact (not enough SVG files out there *on*line) for turning on

Re: [svg-developers] Re: evt and setting new location after winXP SP2...

2004-09-24 Thread andré m. winter
hi jim, will work! also changing server works. i hope that this is the only issue and that there are no more stupid changes of this kind coming in future (a kind of too idealistic i guess). There will be, that is why web applications have maintenance costs many orders of magnitude larger

Re: [svg-developers] fill attribute - pixel area ??

2004-09-24 Thread andré m. winter
salut jean-david, the (a?) svg plugin and its scripting engine handles vectors and only knows about this vector based DOM. rasterizing indeed takes place within the rendering engine, but this is at the end of the pipeline where you have no more access (ASV's rendering engine is not

Re: [svg-developers] evt and setting new location after winXP SP2...

2004-09-23 Thread andré m. winter
hi, there is a strange solution to the problem that onclick=location='/path/file.ext?param1=val1amp;param2='+val2. doesn't work on winXP/SP2. one needs to call the location with the full URL, including protocol and hostname. thus

Re: [svg-developers] external rcc in Adobe Viewer 6?

2004-09-22 Thread André M. Winter
you could check http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/webmapping/files/thematicMap/ for a working example. but RCC is outdated by SVG1.2. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, http://www.carto.net/ http://www.vectoreal.com/

[svg-developers] evt and setingt new location after winXP SP2...

2004-09-21 Thread andré m. winter
hi i read about the problems with local files after winXP/SP2 update (http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/005836.cfm), but now i saw another problem: in many applications i do set links with something similar to onclick=location='/path/term.pl?letter=Aamp;lang='+lang on a or g

Re: [svg-developers] Re: SVG rich client interface demo

2004-09-20 Thread andré m. winter
hi, as ronan and other pointed out, ASV is very slow. but the main reason for this behaviour is not the fact that ASV handles nearly the entire SVG1.0 spec (and a script engine, and printing, and...). this is rather the reason for the huge plugin size. slowness is mainly realted to: - the

Re: [svg-developers] when or when not to DOM

2004-09-20 Thread andré m. winter
hi, serverside line per line and templated based generation are probably best. regarding client side DOM manipulations with SVG there is no big difference in performence between 1) elem = document.createElement(elem_type); elem.setAttribute(NS,attr_1,val_1 [...]

Re: [svg-developers] changing viewbox does not change scale

2004-09-16 Thread André M. Winter
hi, scale doesn't change after viewBox changes because the scale is reinitated on viewBox updated. thus it stays or reverts to 1. don't mix viewBox handling and currentScale/Translate. both have their advantages but switching results in undesired results as you have seen. andré Hello all,