- From: Ulrich-Matthias Schäfer <ulima.ums@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:21:13 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:28:34 UTC
Hey everyone, I am one of the maintainers of the svg.js library and one thing we stumpled over was svg text which is really hard to tame. The text is positioned relative to the baseline which makes sense in one case but is bad in others. We tried to position text based on the upper left edge and currently we use browsers bounding box implementation to achieve that. However - this differs around browsers and I was looking for a more stable way to do that. One possibility which came into my mind was to add a method to get the metrics of the font which is used. Most importingly the values of unitsPerEm and the baseline position. That alone would allow us to move the text in a consistent manner. Is there any effort I dont know of to put something like this into the specs? Thanks for reading! Cheers, Fuzzy
Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:28:34 UTC