[Metapost] Using mkIV and metapost to produce SVG

[Metapost] Using mkIV and metapost to produce SVG

[ralf.waldvogel]

Dear all,

as I have seen on the mailing list digest, my original (HTML) mail has been scrambled. Sorry for that. Here the repost:


I would like to produce an svg file from a Metapost input file using some of ConTeXt's typesetting features (esp. using System OTF Fonts) using something like:

\startbuffer[buffer:dummy]
    \start
        \startcolor[white]
        \framed[align=middle,width=28mm,frame=off]
        {
	        \SansBodyBold % Font definition done earlier
		Test to \par
		rendered \par
        }
        \stopcolor
    \stop
\stopbuffer

% ....


\startuniqueMPgraphic{mp:margin}    
    picture text;
    text := btex \getbuffer[buffer:dummy] etex;
    draw text shifted(-11.8mm,-4.8mm );

   % Some more fancy drawing her
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

Can I render that with MetaPost to SVG?
Is it possible to render text as paths not as referenced glyphs in MetaPost/ConTexT?


Unfortunately I have to stick to SVG as the resulting output format.
Converting from PDF to SVG is not an option at the moment due a) performance considerations and b) trouble with generated font names in the resulting ConTeXt PDF file (inkscape as well as pdf2svg produce real strange results). 
 

Please let me know, if you need furhter information.
Thank you very much in advance.
Kind regards,

Ralf


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Re: [Metapost] Using mkIV and metapost to produce SVG

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/5/2014 1:54 PM, ralf.waldvogel@pta.de wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to produce an svg file from a Metapost input file using
> some of ConTeXt's typesetting features (esp. using System OTF Fonts)
> using something like:
>
> \startbuffer[buffer:dummy]
>      \start
>          \startcolor[white]
>          \framed[align=middle,width=28mm,frame=off]
>          {
>          \SansBodyBold % Font definition done earlier
> Test to \par
> rendered \par
>          }
>          \stopcolor
>      \stop
> \stopbuffer
>
> % ....
>
>
> \startuniqueMPgraphic{mp:margin}
>      picture text;
>      text := btex \getbuffer[buffer:dummy] etex;
>      draw text shifted(-11.8mm,-4.8mm );
>
>     % Some more fancy drawing her
> \stopuniqueMPgraphic
>
> Can I render that with MetaPost to SVG?

no

> Is it possible to render text as paths not as referenced glyphs in
> MetaPost/ConTexT?

no, unless you use the graphic text features

>
> Unfortunately I have to stick to SVG as the resulting output format.
> Converting from PDF to SVG is not an option at the moment due a)
> performance considerations and b) trouble with generated font names in
> the resulting ConTeXt PDF file (inkscape as well as pdf2svg produce real
> strange results).

performance should not really be an issue as one can cache

what strange results?

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[Metapost] Using mkIV and metapost to produce SVG

[ralf.waldvogel]

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