Re: [docbook-apps] svg, pdf, png, and jpg callouts 1-99

["Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>]

wouldn't opacity=0 be like saying, "make this invisible"?

On 5/31/07, David Cramer (Tech Pubs) <dcramer@motive.com> wrote:
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> I figured out the reason the svg images weren't working and fixed them.
> Apparently XEP doesn't support opacity="0" in svgs.
>
> David
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>  ________________________________
>  From: David Cramer (Tech Pubs)
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:56 AM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] svg, pdf, png, and jpg callouts 1-99
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> I found myself wanting more than 10 callouts and wanting them too look crisp
> in pdf, so I made some svg callouts (and used Batik to convert them to other
> formats for use in html). I'm actually using the pdf version of the callouts
> in my output because XEP wasn't rendering the svgs for me. It renders other
> svgs fine, but I don't have time right now to mess with it. However, it
> occurs to me that a better solution would be to have the DocBook xsls write
> the svg directly into the fo. In fact, to make these, I just made one svg
> with a circle and a character in the middle, then looped 99 times using sed
> to number the callouts. Be aware tho that I manually tweaked #1 and #4 just
> slightly to make them appear more centered and legible.
>
> In any case, if someone wants to use them as is or work with this some more,
> e.g. futz with the sizing to get it just right...mine are a little bigger
> than the current callouts or incorporate them into the DocBook xsls so they
> put the svg directly into the fo, feel free:
> http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/callouts.zip
>
> Btw., if you ever manage to use all 99 callouts in a programlisting, I'd
> love to see it :-)
>
> David


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