Re: [docbook] Using <embed> for SVG

[Jamie Echlin <jechlin@clearvision-cm.com>]

Thanks for that Jens,

 > Instead use Batik
 > (http://xml.apache.org/batik) to transform all you SVG to e.g. JPG.

I could do that, but the thing is, I like SVG - I want the zooming and 
panning features, the smooth fonts etc. When I use Batik I find that my 
fonts tend to get jaggy.

I'm not sure your comments about M$ are entirely fair (not like me to 
defend them but what the hell)... the htmlhelp browser is IE, and that 
has support for SVG at least through the Adobe plugin. If, after 
translating the Docbook doc to HTML but before running the help 
compiler, I replace the <IMG> tags with <EMBED> tags it works fine in 
the .chm file.

I guess that is an option, but it seems to be a deficiency in the 
stylesheets...?

thanks, jamie


Jens Stavnstrup wrote:

> Jamie,
> 
> Don't expect any SVG support from Microsoft in the next millenum (which i find
> very unfortunately if not really annoying). Instead use Batik
> (http://xml.apache.org/batik) to transform all you SVG to e.g. JPG.
> 
> That works just fine with for my DocBook document with 100+ SVG pictures.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jens
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jamie Echlin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Morning,
>>
>>First post, be gentle with me. In a nutshell I am trying to include
>>external SVG files in my compiled HTML help, although I would be happy
>>enough if it was working in plain HTML.
>>
>>My input file contains:
>>
>><mediaobject>
>>     <imageobject>
>>       <imagedata fileref="/some.svg" type="SVG"/>
>>     </imageobject>
>></mediaobject>
>>
>>my stylesheet has
>>
>>	<xsl:param name="use.svg" select="1"/>
>>	<xsl:param name="use.embed.for.svg" select="1"/>
>>
>>although I'm not sure of the purpose of the former and I have tried
>>without it. However, my browser is showing broken images, because the
>>html after conversion has <img src...> tags and not something like:
>>
>>		<embed src="some.svg"
>>			name="SVG1"
>>			type="image/svg-xml"
>>			width="800"
>>			height="600"
>>			pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/";
>>		>
>>
>>which is what I am after.
>>
>>Also I couldn't find the param "use.embed.for.svg" in the params.xsl for
>>htmlhelp - does that mean I can't use it?
> 
> 
>