- From: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon <petilon@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:50:31 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-svg@w3c.org
In path data, is it OK to output floating point coordinates in scientific notation? In other words, can I write 3.450000e-004 instead of 0.000345 The specification should make it clear if this is allowed or not. This issue is very important. Many if not most applications that generate SVG files will use the C library function "printf()" to emit coordinates. For very small numbers the printf() function sometimes uses the scientific notation. If this is not allowed then SVG generators should take special precaution to avoid scientific notation. Ideally the SVG spec must explicitly allow numbers in scientific notation so that SVG viewers will be prepared to handle this. Some format specifications are silent about this issue and that causes problems. For example, Adobe Illustrator barfs if it find a number in scientific notation. But AI documentation doesn't warn you about it. Products fail in the field because of this omission in the specs. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Received on Saturday, 13 November 1999 18:50:33 UTC