Apache™ FOP Development: SVG Issues
See also SVG User Documentation for more information.
Examples
These examples illustrate a number of issues relating to conversion to PDF:
As can be seen most of the specific issues are handled.
Developer Notes
For most output formats in FOP the SVG is simply drawn into an image with Batik. For PDF there are a set of classes to handle drawing the GVT (Graphic Vector Toolkit) into PDF markup.
Classes
These are the relevant classes, found in the package org.apache.fop.svg:
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PDFGraphics2D
used for drawing onto a Graphics2D into an existing pdf document, used internally to draw the svg.
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PDFDocumentGraphics2D
used to create a pdf document and inherits from PDFGraphics2D to do the rest of the drawing. Used by the transcoder to create a standalone pdf document from an svg. Can be used independantly the same as any Graphics2D.
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PDFTranscoder
used by Batik to transcode an svg document into a standalone pdf, via PDFDocumentGraphics2D.
Ideas
Batik can convert ttf to svg font. This svg font could be converted into a pdf stroked font (type 3 font).