Actually IE/ASV handles much arbitrary content inside a <glyph> see http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/gradientfont4.svg in which rotating gradients are assigned to shapes layed out as text along text paths to simulate non-linear gradients.
And as you know, ASV handles your example as well (I quite like it BTW!). Whether the other browsers will ever implement SVG Fonts in light of the modern trend* to label as CSSn (for some large n>2) everything in SVG except for path geometry, I guess is now in question. The other way to accomplish some of the non-rectiliinear patterning effects that you are experimenting with would be to use <replicate> as discussed here: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGOpen2010/replicate.htm . cheers, David * I think it to be just a passing fad; but then I am an optimist! ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Dahlstrom To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [svg-developers] SVG Fonts On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:46:27 +0100, scalablev <s...@oyvindeid.com> wrote: > Looks like http://zuccaralloo.de/devgroup/samples/complexPaths.svg only > displays as it should in ASV. Is this because native implementations > don't support SVG Fonts? No, it's because most implementations haven't implemented support for anything else than the tiny subset of SVG Fonts, see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/fonts.html. Essentially what this means is that arbitrary svg markup inside a <glyph> element isn't supported, only <glyph> elements that have a 'd' attribute will be rendered. Try it in Opera or WebKit for example. Here's another example: http://www.treebuilder.de/default.asp?file=192928.xml. > After some googling around, I understand that WOFF is the recommended > alternative to SVG Fonts. Can I achieve the same with WOFF, i.e. custom > symbols along paths? I need this for various elements in webmap > applications. Well, WOFF couldn't do some of the things in that complexPaths example either, e.g using multiple colors in a glyph, or using strokes to define the glyph. Also at the time of writing I think you'll find that TTF fonts will get you a slightly broader range of support in browsers, unless you are specifically targetting the only the very latest browser releases. I don't think there's that much you could do with a WOFF font that you couldn't do with an SVG Font (even the svgtiny subset, or for that matter any other font format supported in browsers today TTF/OTF/EOT), at least if your goal is making symbols. Cheers /Erik -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
