Re: Converting Font to SVG: all glyphs are rotated

I haven't had time to verify your example, but I suspect you'll find
that the fonts aren't rotated 180º, but flipped vertically; don't
forget that SVG coordinates are upside down wrt cartesian. This annoys
me on a regular basis!

Martin

On 14 June 2011 16:56, Dieter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just converted several fonts to SVG. When I extract the d="" element
> from several glyphs and insert them in a SVG document I notice that
> all glyphs are rotated clockwise by 180 degrees. Here is an example
> for the glyph "7":
>
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN"
>  "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
>  <path d="M219 -2Q194 0 162 0Q130 0 92 -4Q122 44 157 105T229 237T304
> 387T376 550Q359 551 342 551Q325 551 306 551Q242 551 175 548T36 537Q38
> 582 29 628Q155 623 269 623Q384 623 490 629Q496 569 492
> 541Q466 509 440 466T388 374T338 273T292 172T252 77T219 -2Z"
>        fill="green" stroke="blue" stroke-width="3" />
> </svg>
>
>
> Is this normal? Why are the glyphs rotated?
>
> Cheers,
> Dieter
>
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