You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to batik-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Thomas DeWeese <Th...@Kodak.com> on 2004/12/01 03:02:33 UTC
Re: Converting flow text to pdf
Andreas Steichardt wrote:
> We are making heavy use of flowtext in our svgs and convert them to pdf.
> Unfortunately the size of these pdfs is very huge because the text gets
> converted to vectors. Are there any plans to change that? Or maybe there is
> already a (commandline) option to take the text as it is and i missed it?
This isn't easy. The PDF transcoder will handle 'simple' text but
for complex SVG text it resorts to outlines. The basic problem is
that as I understand it, it isn't easy to go from a Java GlyphVector
(which is what Batik generates) to PDF text.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-help@xml.apache.org
Re: Converting flow text to pdf
Posted by Thomas DeWeese <Th...@Kodak.com>.
>>Andreas Steichardt wrote:
>>
>>>We are making heavy use of flowtext in our svgs and convert them to pdf.
>>>Unfortunately the size of these pdfs is very huge because the text gets
>>>converted to vectors. Are there any plans to change that? Or maybe there
>>>is already a (commandline) option to take the text as it is and i missed
>>>it?
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 03:02, Thomas DeWeese wrote:
>> This isn't easy. The PDF transcoder will handle 'simple' text but
>>for complex SVG text it resorts to outlines. The basic problem is
>>that as I understand it, it isn't easy to go from a Java GlyphVector
>>(which is what Batik generates) to PDF text.
Andreas Steichardt wrote:
> any chances that this will change in the near future?
I don't think anyone is actively working on it. I just did
a bunch of work on the text engine of Batik, and I have a few
ideas on what could be done but I really don't know PDF that
well.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-help@xml.apache.org
Re: Converting flow text to pdf
Posted by Andreas Steichardt <mo...@globalpark.de>.
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 03:02, Thomas DeWeese wrote:
Hi
> Andreas Steichardt wrote:
> > We are making heavy use of flowtext in our svgs and convert them to pdf.
> > Unfortunately the size of these pdfs is very huge because the text gets
> > converted to vectors. Are there any plans to change that? Or maybe there
> > is already a (commandline) option to take the text as it is and i missed
> > it?
>
> This isn't easy. The PDF transcoder will handle 'simple' text but
> for complex SVG text it resorts to outlines. The basic problem is
> that as I understand it, it isn't easy to go from a Java GlyphVector
> (which is what Batik generates) to PDF text.
any chances that this will change in the near future?
Kind regards,
Andreas Streichardt
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-help@xml.apache.org