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SVG with flowroots conversion in Ruby

I'm trying to convert a SVG to PNG which has a flowroot element in it. Inkscape does it fine, when I convert using Cairo or imagemagick the flowroot elements appear as an opaque box rather than rendering the text within it.

I'm thinking this is because flowroots are a part of SVG 1.2. Does anyone know of any other gems/libraries that might help?

Solution

  • Why not just export it to PNG from inkscape then?

    You'll find that flowRoot isn't supported anywhere except inkscape. It's defined in an old working draft of SVG 1.2 Full, and if you look at the last published SVG 1.2 Full working draft you'll find this:

    Notable changes to the feature set that readers can expect to see in the next draft include:

    • Replacement of the previous flowing text proposal with a superset of the SVG 1.2 Tiny textArea feature.

    That said, the SVG WG is working on SVG2 instead, so you should probably look there if you want to know where things are headed.