[svg-developers] Stroking small text

2004-12-03 Thread scalablev
Hi! I want to display text with a small white line around it, like this: http://kart.nois.no/test/svgtext/text.gif. Stroking the text seems to obscure the text itself. I'm not getting exactly what I want with a filter either: http://kart.nois.no/test/svgtext/text.svg Any suggestions? --

Re: [svg-developers] Stroking small text

2004-12-03 Thread Jerrold Maddox
Have you tried a smaller stroke width - stroke-width:0.1, for instance? Jerry >Hi! > >I want to display text with a small white line around it, like this: >http://kart.nois.no/test/svgtext/text.gif. > >Stroking the text seems to obscure the text itself

RE: [svg-developers] Stroking small text

2004-12-03 Thread Doug Schepers
Hi, Jerry- I tried that, but it rendered the outline all but invisible. When I made the text bold, I got slightly better results. The problem is that the stroke is overlapping the interior of the glyphs. This should be fixed in SVG1.2, where you'll be able to have finer control over stroking, su