- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:53:05 +0000
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
> On Mar 12, 2015, at 7:08 AM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote: > > Is it defined what the default size of an SVG resource document is? I > don’t think it is, and we probably should define it. > > I am not sure whether it is possible to write content that depends on > this size in regular SVG documents (if you think of a way, let me > know!), but I think it is possible with SVG glyphs in OpenType. For > example, if the font document is: > > <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> > <rect glyphid="1" width="100%" height="20"/> > </svg> > > this would define a glyph consisting of a rectangle that hangs just > below the baseline at a height of 20 units-per-em. It’s not clear what > the 100% would resolve against, though. In a regular SVG document that > is being presented in some viewport then that viewport size will > determine the viewBox automatically. > > For font documents, I think it could make sense to define the viewport > as a square whose width and height are the units-per-em value from the > font’s head table. More sense than any other values, probably. Is this question specific to font documents? Or do you think even for standalone documents this is not specified enough? Greetings, Dirk > > -- > Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/ >
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