[Therion] Bugs in SVG output

Stacho Mudrak s.m at speleo.sk
Fri Sep 23 11:20:18 CEST 2005


Wookey wrote:
> However there are some problems with the output (at least in my viewer). The
> ater area in the top left (pink, "Beaufort Straights") has not been clipped
> by the central wall, but this comes out OK on the PDF.

Same in my Adobe SVG Viewer. There must be something wrong...

> Also the text labels
> have problems. Text overlaps itself and is truncated - e.g we get "Elevato"
> instead of "Elevator", and the two words of "Menagerie Cave" overlap.

Again same in Adobe Viewer. I can say nothing about it (looks like a 
kerning problem). It is the field of MartinB and he is now online only a 
very short period of day.

> Perhaps most seriously the Legend is entirely missing.

Yes. The legend is not implemented yet in SVG. Currenlty it is a TeX 
macro, but we generate SVG without running TeX. Another point is, that 
texts are a huge problem in SVG. SVG has no ability to format text 
paragraphs and also vertical alignment is not possible :( MartinB will 
probably write more about it.

We wanted to solve this by making HTML envelope for the SVG map (with 
legend at all), but it is still only in the TODO list.

> It is possible that these errors are due to the viewer rather than file. I
> don't know.

It looks, it is a problem of the file.

S.



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