- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:51:00 -0400
- To: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- CC: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>, 'Rik Cabanier' <cabanier@gmail.com>, 'www-svg' <www-svg@w3.org>
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
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