What I meant to say:
fill rule will only work if the path segment will participate if the shape
is filled.
Simple lines or path segments that are filled on both sides are still
undefined.
Rik
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
>> --
>> Jeremie
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>>
>
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