Re: How to make SVG Rasterizer embed text in PDFs?

Thanks! I was able to get text working using this example from FOP:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleSVG2PDF.java?view=markup

-- John

On 24 Jun 2014, at 15:57, Luis Bernardo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Can you check whether the resulting PDF just includes an image of the SVG (or maybe an image per text segment). I would expect the rasterizer to do that.
> 
> You can achieve what you want using FOP. Then you will get text. There are some samples in examples/fo/svg of the FOP source. With the current FOP trunk you can even configure the fonts used in the SVG text so that they are used instead of letting AWT map them to some system font. 
> 
> On 6/24/14, 11:16 PM, John Hewson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I’m using the SVG Rasterizer to produce PDF files, from SVG files which
>> contain <text> elements. However, the transcoded PDFs do not contain
>> embedded text, so they’re not searchable. I can see the outlines of the
>> text, but I can’t select it or copy and paste it in Acrobat.
>> 
>> How can I produce a PDF with proper text in it?
>> 
>> The input I’m using is just a test file from:
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/svg/text.svg
>> 
>> I’m using the latest Batik 1.8pre from the trunk and Oracle JVM 24.51-b03 on
>> OS X 10.9.3
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> -- John
>> 
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