[xep-support] XEP and SVG

[Chris Lilley]

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, 12:49:52 PM, Nikolai wrote:

NG> Stefan,

>> I have attached a typical SVG image that is rendered perfectly with FOP
>> but not at all with XEP when creating a PDF. I would be very grateful
>> if someone could point out what XEP can't handle in this SVG image.

NG> Your image uses CSS selectors for styling. We don't support CSS stylesheets
NG> in SVG.

A pity.

NG> (Strictly speaking, interchangeable SVGs should avoid using
NG> a specific styling technology like CSS; I wonder if there is a switch
NG> somewhere in CorelDraw to disable it).

There is. Tell it to use formatting attributes instead.

NG> I changed all 'class' attributes in your image to 'style',

!! so, its still using CSS !! but a part of CSS that you implement,
since the selector is implicit.

To remove the CSS, change from, for example

<path style="&fil1;" d="M3849 232l7 5 -12 0 5 7 0 -12z"/>
to
<path fill="#131516" d="M3849 232l7 5 -12 0 5 7 0 -12z"/>


NG>  moving all styling info to entities;

Why?

NG> XEP rendered the resulting SVG without any problem.
NG> Please find attached a modified version of the SVG image.

>> I have a feeling that it may have something to do with 
>> the length/width and viewBox attributes...

NG> XEP has no known problems in this area. However, your image's
NG> intrinsic size was larger than the page;

Corel Draw, like Illustrator and many other originally print-oriented
tools, makes the author select a 'paper size' for a new drawing. The
width and height here are those of A4 paper.

NG> to make it fit, I specified
NG> a common image-shrinking sequence on the fo:external-graphic:

NG> <fo:external-graphic src="url(blocks1.svg)"
NG>                         content-width="scale-to-fit" width="100%"/>

NG> Otherwise, XEP dropped the image too large to fit.



-- 
 Chris                            mailto:chris at w3.org

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