Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
Why not take it to the SVG mailing list directly? (Note that I've taken the liberty to change the subject.) My guess would be that SVG does it for simplicity, but I'm definitely not sure.
You're right. I'm a bit short of time on weekends, but will do it on Monday.
Cheers, Juan Vuletich
Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology wrote:
That particular oddity has annoyed me a few times. I for one like your way much better, Juan. But I guess I'd be in favour of sticking with the standards if the standards people have no room for movement. Usually safest ;-)
There's a related oddity in Inkscape's rendering (and probably the standards), the fact that the border is drawn so that it overlaps the fill rather than surrounding it. To be honest, the idea of the stroke surrounding the fill (non-overlapping) makes a lot more intuitive sense to me, especially when you've got thick and/or translucent strokes like Juan's example.
Is somebody able to explain why the overlapping method is used, either for intuitive reasons or technical reasons? Or is it just an arbitrary choice by those who write the standards?
- Bryan
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Bryan Hoyt, /Web Development Manager/ -- Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 942 7833 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz http://brush.co.nz/ On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 01:48, Juan Vuletich <juan@...2357... mailto:juan@...2357...> wrote:
Hi Folks, Inkscape and other SVG renderes draw shapes by drawing first thefill, and then drawing the border on top. As Ivan noted recently (in ""), at
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/vectoreffects/master/SVGVectorEffectsPrimer.ht...
andhttp://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/render.html#PaintingShapesAndText , it is clear that the standard requests to do that.
I didn't know that, and took the time to render this svg: http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/rects.svg like this: http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/rectsInM3.png . It is a bit more complicated, but I feel it is better. What do you think? Should I simplify my code and just draw oneover the other? Or should the standard be changed, and Inkscape and other renderers do what I did?
Thanks, Juan Vuletich
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