Re: How to interpret/retrieve coordinates from svg file?

On Dec 11, 8:24 am, gans92 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if I am posting this question on the right forum. Would
> appreciate of you direct me to the right forum.

The right forum is http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/messages?o=1
since these are not firefox specific questions.

 Here is my problem:
>
> I have a pdf document which I have converted to svg format.
> I wish to retireve the text along with the bounding rectangular coordinates
> of each word in the document.
> My svg file has x,y, coordinate informataion as a transformation matrix.
> Here is an entry:
>
> <text transform="matrix(1 0 0 -1 66 649.44)"><tspan
> x="0,6.145,8.2317,10.318,12.
> 405,15.002,20.637" y="0" class="ps01 ps10 ps25">Sample text</tspan></text>
>
> I am not able to understand how to get the 4 rectangular (x,y) coordinates
> from this.
>
> Following are my queries:
>
> a) Is it possible to extract bounding rectangular coordinates from svg
> files?

You can use getBBox (http://wiki.svg.org/GetBBox)

> b) Are there any api to retrieve this information, given a text to search?

The same DOM apis that work for html work for SVG too to get text.
http://www.w3schools.com/dom/prop_element_textcontent.asp for
instance.

Best regards

Robert.