Hi Jeremie,
this sounds like a reasonable feature.
Having it depend on the fill rule will solve some issues, but will only work
if the shape will be filled.
The <value> attribute will introduce significant complexities since it might
cause strokes to overlap each other and it will make the stroke no longer
match the fill.
Has there ever been a proposal to do an Illustrator style offset path
effect?
Rik
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Jeremie Patonnier <
jeremie.patonnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello SVG WG,
>
> I don't remember if there is plan for this, but I wonder if it would be
> possible to have the following feature in SVG2 :
>
> An new attribute named "stroke-position" that allow author to specify the
> way stroke are positioned around a shape.
> This new attribute could have the following values :
>
> - middle : the default value, it act as it is today
> - inside : the rendered stroke is fully inside the shape
> - outside : the rendered stroke is fully outside the shape
> - <value> : the middle of the stroke is moved by the <value> to
> be rendered. A positive value moved the stroke out of the shape where a
> negative value move the stroke into the shape
>
> Here are some exemples with images to show the expect rendering (the black
> line is for demonstration purpose only) :
>
> <rect width="20" height="20" stroke="red" stroke-width="5"
> stroke-position="middle" />
> [image: stroke-position-middle.png]
>
> <rect width="20" height="20" stroke="red" stroke-width="5"
> stroke-position="inside" />
> [image: stroke-position-inside.png]
>
> <rect width="20" height="20" stroke="red" stroke-width="5"
> stroke-position="outside" />
> [image: stroke-position-outside.png]
>
> <rect width="20" height="20" stroke="red" stroke-width="5"
> stroke-position="1.5" />
> [image: stroke-position-positive-1.5.png]
>
> <rect width="20" height="20" stroke="red" stroke-width="5"
> stroke-position="-1.5" />
> [image: stroke-position-negative-1.5.png]
>
> I know that there is a question when the shape is not closed (where is the
> inside/outside of a line ?) In this case, it's possible to relay on the
> fill-rule attribute to determine this.
>
> Thanks :)
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> Jeremie
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