[xep-support] Linking From/To SVG Graphics

[Jeff Beal]

How easily could you implement something where you were to either limit
authors to rectangular shaped links or use a "bounding box" approach?  We
don't currently use SVG, but I could see it being useful for putting our
HTML imagemaps (all rectangular) into a PDF format, using completely
transparent SVG rectangles layered above our existing images.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikolai Grigoriev [mailto:grig at renderx.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:16 PM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Linking From/To SVG Graphics
> 
> 
> Eliot,
> 
> > I haven't had a chance to experiment with the new SVG 
> support in XEP,
> > but I'm wondering what, if any, support it provides for 
> creating links
> > out of and into SVG graphics?
> 
> Currently, there is no support for links in SVG. There are 
> serious technical
> issues to prevent its easy implementation: the concept of 
> linking is just
> too different in SVG and in PDF/PostScript, and full implementation
> is impossible (e.g one cannot have a non-rectangular hot area in PDF).
> 
> > For example, I would like to be able to
> > make items in a flow chart links to either supporting 
> documentation or
> > other flow charts. By the same token, I would like to be 
> able to link to
> > specific graphic objects.
> 
> It looks very appealing indeed. We will see how it can be 
> done; but in any
> case, it is not going to appear soon - too many things have 
> to be rearranged
> inside XEP.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikolai Grigoriev
> RenderX
> 
> -------------------
> (*) To unsubscribe, send a message with words 'unsubscribe 
> xep-support'
> in the body of the message to majordomo at renderx.com from the address
> you are subscribed from.
> (*) By using the Service, you expressly agree to these Terms 
> of Service http://www.renderx.com/tos.html
> 
> 
-------------------
(*) To unsubscribe, send a message with words 'unsubscribe xep-support'
in the body of the message to majordomo at renderx.com from the address
you are subscribed from.
(*) By using the Service, you expressly agree to these Terms of Service http://www.renderx.com/tos.html