Re: Minutes, January 14 2010 SVG WG telcon

Hi Paul,


I'm not part of the SVG-WG but here goes (response inline)...


> During the discussion of "unit" behavior, I noticed the following:
>
>>    ... and there are things that don't have units
>>    ... the idea of SVG is it's scalable
>
> Scalable, yes -- but there are cases in which we would like certain elements to be non-scaling -- for instance stroke width and font metrics may want to have non-scaling parameters in the engineering domain.  That is, to allow the endpoints of a stroke to expand and contract, but always maintain a particular pixel stroke-width.

I may be overlooking this but, AFAIK, the non-scaling-stroke
vector-effect [1] (introduced in SVG Tiny 1.2) was specifically
designed for this. :-)

Please reply with more details if your use-case can't be addressed by
this neat (yet not widely implemented) way to achieve fixed stroke
width. ;-)


> Thanks for listening,
>  ~ Paul

Hope this helps,
 Helder


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/painting.html#VectorEffectProperty

Received on Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:39:37 UTC