Re: Bounding Box (getBBox())

Hi Jonathan,

Many thanks for this, I will investigate.

Andy


On 29 Apr 2013, at 18:27, jonathan wood wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> 
>    Yes you can obtain a valid bbox in a headless environment.  You'll need to boot the svg and dom css.....
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> http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-batik/BootSvgAndCssDom
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Andy Fendley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question regarding using Batik in a headless environment.
> 
> Regarding the [    getBBox()   ]  method and a piece of text within an SVG document that is NOT rendered and is in a headless environment such as a web application, is there any way, knowing the text point size and having the font (ttf) available to determine this bounding box using the batik software?
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> We have an [ SVGDocument ] in memory and thats it.
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> Many thanks for any response in advance, and Batik is working superbly well for us.
> 
> Andy
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