RE: [docbook-apps] db5 svg images

["Cramer, David W (David)" <dcramer@motive.com>]

I haven't gotten around to trying out svgweb [1] with DocBook content yet, but it looks to me like the most promising solution to the problem.  

David

[1] http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Johnson [mailto:stevej@caringo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:44 AM
> To: Dave Pawson
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] db5 svg images
> 
> SVG viewer is EOL:
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/
> 
> There could likely be more to it, such as what exact format you do your
> SVG in. Adobe Illustrator has 9 or 10 different combinations of
> options,
> at least.
> 
> On 12/16/2010 10:11 AM, Dave Pawson wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:33:31 -0600
> > Steve Johnson<stevej@caringo.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> If you're outputting to HTML you should consider doing it like this:
> >>
> >>    <mediaobject>
> >>               <imageobject role="fo">
> >>                   <imagedata format="SVG" scale="75"
> >> fileref="Graphics/cluster-general.svg" align="center"
> >> scalefit="1"/></imageobject>
> >>                   <imageobject role="html">
> >>                    <imagedata format="PNG" scale="90"
> >> fileref="Graphics/cluster-general.png"
> align="center"/></imageobject>
> >>           </mediaobject>
> >>
> >> I found that IE8 doesn't render SVG at all and Chrome puts a box
> >> around each one such that you have horizontal and vertical scroll
> >> bars .. but that could be due to the fact our HTML must fit into a
> >> 600 pixel horizontal space.
> >>
> >> You will find the above if you search Stayton's book for "svg".
> >
> > I can create the png form if needed, but I'm concerned about
> > the error (if it is such).
> >
> > I'm wondering if Bobs pages are out of date here?
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SVGimages.html
> > I do recall 'prompting' the IE user to get/install the svg viewer
> from
> > Adobe. Not sure if that's still available. Then the reader would know
> > something was amiss.
> >
> >
> > SVG is so much better than bit-mapped though.
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> 
> ------------
> 
> Steve Johnson, Senior Content Developer
> Caringo
> stevej@caringo.com
> 
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