Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I tried Inkscape already but there are unfortunately some bugs when running it headless and exporting to plain SVG.
Doing some more research we found the Harfbuzz hb-view tool to do exactly what we want but with some compromise. For example it does not have alignment ...
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- 2015-02-03T02:32:07-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Render text to SVG file
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- 2015-02-02T09:27:37-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Render text to SVG file
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Re: Render text to SVG file
SVG files are plain text. If you want to insert text in an SVG file, use a text tool.
You are right, but the idea was to "render" text to an SVG file having the text as outlines (SVG path elements).
I would not like to use the standard SVG text element and reference the font inside as this is a ...
You are right, but the idea was to "render" text to an SVG file having the text as outlines (SVG path elements).
I would not like to use the standard SVG text element and reference the font inside as this is a ...
- 2015-02-02T06:08:03-07:00
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Render text to SVG file
- Replies: 4
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Render text to SVG file
Hi!
I am trying to render text to an SVG file. Is this generally supported? Rendering to raster image formats like PNG works great.
The SVG I get looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR ...
I am trying to render text to an SVG file. Is this generally supported? Rendering to raster image formats like PNG works great.
The SVG I get looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR ...