Re: Minutes, June 9 2011 SVG WG telcon

Hi, Alex-

Alex Danilo wrote (on 6/9/11 9:11 PM):
>
> --Original Message--:
>> <snip/> Currently in aligning text to a (baseline) curve in SVG,
>> the characters are never distorted, merely positioned and rotated.
>> To accomplish the full fledged dual-path approach to alignment, one
>> will probably need to apply 3D transforms to the glyphs, but that
>> will be a part of SVG2, anyhow, so it is not too far a stretch
>> perhaps?
>
> Actually since SVG 1.0 there has been an attribute 'method'
> on<textPath>  when set to 'stretch' is supposed to do most of what
> you describe here.
>
> No-one has ever implemented it as far as I'm aware.

Au contraire, mon frère!

Opera does implement it, and it's cool!
   http://schepers.cc/svg/textPath-stretch.svg


Regards-
-Doug

Received on Friday, 10 June 2011 04:51:04 UTC