- From: <Robert.Riviere@equipement.gouv.fr>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:44:23 +0100
- To: chris@w3.org, public-svg-print@w3.org
- Cc: Robert.Riviere@equipement.gouv.fr
Chris Lilley [mailto:chris@w3.org] wrote : > This can be done already by specifying the width and height of the > image, and also providing a viewBox that sets up the map-coordinates > to physical-coordinates relationship. > ... > Another thing that is useful in that context is the SVG mapping > metadata: > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#GeographicCoordinates Oh, yes, I agree you can have a complete control on what part of the drawing the user will see, in terms of drawing coordinates or even of geographic coordinates in SVG1.1. But on the subject of printing, I think that's not enough to manage rendering scale : you also need to have complete control on or information about physical aspects of the support, e.g. at least a way to map your drawing units to paper units. You may answer that it's not SVG's responsability to take care of this, but from an user point of view, I think there is a need for this. > Any publicly accessible use of SVG there that you could point me to? > Its always good to see real-world examples, especially from industry > and government. I'd be delighted to give you this kind of thing, but unfortunately there isn't yet. From what I'm aware of, there are two projets under developpement running here : - one is about an intranet application for managing highways maintenance - the other is about distributing public information about traffic conditions, like this : http://www.bison-fute.equipement.gouv.fr/tigron/tigron6.htm (currently based on Java applet). But this one isn't going on very quickly... Bye, Robert
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