Re: Source-image offset/dimensions control for the image element

 > It is possible to control all of this in SVG, using for example the
 > clip, mask or pattern features. However, each of these comes at the
 > price of additional processing, since they are meant to cover more
 > advanced use-cases as well.

or by using the svg viewBox in the example below.
Not sure of the cost.

<svg >
   ...
   <svg width="400" height="300"
        viewBox="80 0 80 60" overflow="hidden">
     <image width="160" height="120"
            preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin" xlink:href="sprites.jpg"/>
   </svg>
   ...
</svg>


Ken Stacey

On 7/05/2008 6:19 PM, Erik Dahlström wrote:
> 
> Hello www-svg,
> 
> I'm wondering if there's interest in being able to control the offset, 
> width and height of a raster image to draw in the <image> element, to be 
> able to select exactly what part of the raster image to draw.
> 
> Something similar to CSS background-position [1], which allows you to 
> pick an arbitrary (x,y) offset of an image. This is often used to 
> collect many sprites in one image, to be able to load multiple resources 
> as one.
> 
> In SVG it's only possible to use the 'preserveAspectRatio' attribute to 
> control the position for raster images. The 1.1 spec says that when an 
> <image> element references a raster image the implicit 'viewBox' has a 
> value of "0 0 raster-image-width raster-image-height". If there was a 
> way of controlling the implicit viewBox it would be possible to draw 
> raster sprites more efficiently.
> 
> It is possible to control all of this in SVG, using for example the 
> clip, mask or pattern features. However, each of these comes at the 
> price of additional processing, since they are meant to cover more 
> advanced use-cases as well.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> /Erik
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background-properties
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#ImageElement
>

Received on Monday, 12 May 2008 15:04:39 UTC