- From: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:14:27 +1000
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>, "'Rik Cabanier'" <cabanier@gmail.com>, "'www-svg'" <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi Doug, --Original Message--: >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 COOL! Finally... Now I know what that means for all the other implementers. Alex >Regards- >-Doug > > >
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