Re: FlowText examples

[Thomas DeWeese <Th...@Kodak.com>]

Kevin Maione wrote:

> Thanks. I ran the examples from my development environment using the 
> source distribution and they worked great.
> 
> I then created 2 simple examples:
> 1) The first flowed some text inside a rectangle
> 2) I then tried the same example using a circle as the flowRegion:

> In this case the text did not show up.
> 
> My assumption at this point is that the level of support for the 
> flowText stuff does not yet include this type of functionality (i.e. 
> flowing inside non-rectangular shapes).
> However before I give up I thought I'd just run this by everyone in case 
> I am making some error.

    This is correct currently flowText in Batik only supports
rectangular flow regions.

> P.S. I searched the FAQ and archives for info on this question of level 
> of extension support so if I missed the answer consider this a pre-apology.
> 
> Thomas DeWeese wrote:
> 
>> Kevin Maione wrote:
>>
>>> I have downloaded the latest binary distribution and run Squiggle 
>>> from the command line using Sun JVM 1.4.01_01. The application comes 
>>> up fine and I can load and display SVG files. However when I load the 
>>> flowtext related examples xml-batik/samples/extensions/flowText.svg I 
>>> do not see any text displayed even though it appears to be specified 
>>> in the source. Can I assume the flowtext stuff is not supported yet 
>>> or is there some problem?
>>
>>
>>
>>    Please read the FAQ.  Because these are not yet part of the
>> standard they are not part of the 'standard' execs.  You may
>> run these examples using the 'extension' jars in the subdir of
>> the binary distribution.
>>
>>
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