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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] svg, pdf, png, and jpg callouts 1-99
Correct. I had a square that I had used to align the number in the original image I'd worked up in Illustrator. It had opacity="0", which Batik observes but XEP doesn't, so in XEP that translucent square wasn't translucent. I just removed it since it was cruft anyway. The takeaway is that if you make something translucent in Illustrator and use the svg in an XEP-rendered pdf, the translucent elements won't be translucent in the pdf, tho the'll look fine in the rasterized versions of the image. I think I'd run across that before and forgot about it. David > -----Original Message----- > From: chris.chiasson@gmail.com > [mailto:chris.chiasson@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chiasson > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:17 PM > To: David Cramer (Tech Pubs) > Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] svg, pdf, png, and jpg callouts 1-99 > > wouldn't opacity=0 be like saying, "make this invisible"? > > On 5/31/07, David Cramer (Tech Pubs) <dcramer@motive.com> wrote: > > > > > > I figured out the reason the svg images weren't working and > fixed them. > > Apparently XEP doesn't support opacity="0" in svgs. > > > > David > > > > > > ________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > > 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 > > > -- > http://chris.chiasson.name/ >
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