[reportlab-users] SVG font-size values lack units (invalid CSS)

[Peter]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

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> Peter wrote:

> ........

>>

>> The images don't look identical to those from the PNG output from

>> renderPM (the fonts sizes differ a little), but this does look pretty

>> close and it now works on all the browsers I have tested.

>>

> well I just looked at the definitions currently being talked about for svg

> 1.1 and font-size appears here

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> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/propidx.html

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> there the allowed value types for font-size are

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>  <absolute-size>  |  <relative-size>  | <length>  |  <percentage>  |

>  inherit

>

>

> and following the link for length gives this definition ...


I think you are reading the spec for the font-size attribute where I
agree the units are optional, and from me testing all the browsers
cope. e.g. <text font-size="10">Hello World!</text>
(I'm not sure what the units used are - this is another reason for us
to be explicit if we can be.)

The current renderSVG (and my suggested small change) doesn't use the
font-size attribute but instead supplies an bit of CSS to the style
attribute where units *are* required.  e.g <text style="font-size:
10pt;">Hello World!</text>

Peter