Re: Using user-defined fonts in SVGs

[Bruce Robertson <br...@mta.ca>]

Quoting Jorg Heymans <jh...@domek.be>:

> 
> > Normaly this would be no problem, as I am using the SVG-to-JPG
> > serializer. But it sems to slow down the whole process of image
> > generation.
> 
> This is interesting. Have you actually done any benchmarks on this? In all
> my svg's i have always included the whole font definition without really
> thinking this could have a performance impact.
> 
> >
> > Is there a way to add fonts to cocoon without having to restart the VM?
> >
> 
> Not sure. How are you currently referencing fonts? Have you tried posting
> this on the batik list?
> 
> rgds
> Jorg

It is possible that my piece on embedding SVG fonts in the Cocoon wiki might be
apropos:
http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Embedding_SVG_Fonts

This code will prepend scalable font glyphs to a given SVG document, and it only
prepends the glyphs necessary for the given document, a benefit when working
with large Unicode fonts.

I agree that rasterizing is more pricey with embedded fonts, so I just skip this
part of the pipeline if I'm rasterizing. In that case, you can be sure that the
font is available locally; there's no need to provide embedded glyphs.


Yrs, 

-- 
Bruce Robertson, 
Dept. of Classics, Mount Allison University
http://heml.mta.ca

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