Ah - that would have saved me a weekend. I will look at doing this instead of tracing the outlines as I do at the moment - in particular, my 'S' looks pretty awful.
Can you put a list in font-family e.g. Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif? How do you indicate bold for Windows users - in the family name? Thanks, Ian Redfern. On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 04:02, Young, Robert wrote: > > Ian Redfern wrote: > <Snip> > > It > > would also be much simpler if I could put text in shape > > files, although > > I admit that cross-platform font issues would make this impractical. > > > > It is possible to put text in shape files. I may even have be caught saying > you can't, but when I looked into it, it is possible. As you say, there may > be cross-platform issues. > > Anyway, here's how to do it: > > To place text in a shape, use the svg:text element. It has the following > style attributes which may be set: > font-family: > font-size: > text-anchor: start or end > The text is then placed in the svg:text element. For example > <svg:text x="0" y="0" style="text-anchor:start;">Test</svg:text> > will place the text Test starting at (0,0). > > I note that this feature was added on 2001-05-18 but is completely > undocumented (excluding ChangeLog and objects/custom/test.xml). I will > submit a bug regarding the lack of doco (#86402). I should write the doco... > > Regards, > Rob. > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list -- Ian Redfern Consultant Telecoms Solutions Logica UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7446 1686 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.logica.com This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
