Krysztof:
Do you have another suggestion on how I can get map labels imported into Inkscape? My SVG text books both use CSS styling for text, which looked a little ugly.
I'm not really worried about compatability with the SVG standard. Inkscape is a great drawing and cartogrpahy tool and I'm just trying to get my data into it.
If there is another, more "standard compliant" way to generate text that Inkscape can read, please tell me about it.
Thanks for the feedback.
Landon
2010/3/15 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
2010/3/15 Redefined Horizons <redefined.horizons@...400...>:
I'm currently working on some Java code that will export Inkscape ready SVG from an open source mapping application. One of the things I need to do is export map labels. I've been taking a look at how Inkscape represents text labels in its SVG flavor. I'm looking for advice on how to calculate the dimensions of the rectangle element used as the flow region.
Please don't do this... Our flowed text is not compatible with SVG 1.1. It might be compatible with SVG 1.2, but that specification is not yet finalized. Moreover the SVG version attribute on Inkscape SVGs is 1.1, which is clearly wrong. It's actually the worst SVG incompatibility in Inkscape.
Regards, Krzysztof