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Thomas B. Passin wrote: > I was very happy I could use SVG and liked it much better than working with > Postscript - although PS can do a lot more or at least it is easier to > figure out how I'd be interested in knowing what PS can do that SVG can't and that you'd have liked to see in SVG while working on those tasks. > But SVG is missing one capability that really gets in the > way of using it in complex applications, so far as I am concerned. That is > the lack of font metrics. You cannot find out how big any piece of text is, > so you cannot programatically line many things up, you cannot properly break > lines, etc. I hope that the SVG language experts have or will figure out a > way to deal with that, because I think it is essential. Can you tell me what you found missing from the SVGTextContentElement[0] interface? getComputedTextLength() could be of some help, and you should be able to call getBBox() on a <text> element. [0]http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#DOMInterfaces -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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