RE: Cisco icons for Dia

[Ian Redfern <RedfernI logica com>]

Ah - that would have saved me a weekend. 

I will look at doing this instead of tracing the outlines as I do at the
moment - in particular, my 'S' looks pretty awful.

Can you put a list in font-family e.g. Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif? How
do you indicate bold for Windows users - in the family name?

Thanks,
Ian Redfern.

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 04:02, Young, Robert wrote:
> > Ian Redfern wrote:
> <Snip>
> > It
> > would also be much simpler if I could put text in shape 
> > files, although
> > I admit that cross-platform font issues would make this impractical.
>
> It is possible to put text in shape files. I may even have be caught saying
> you can't, but when I looked into it, it is possible. As you say, there may
> be cross-platform issues.
>
> Anyway, here's how to do it:
>
> To place text in a shape, use the svg:text element. It has the following
> style attributes which may be set:
> font-family:
> font-size:
> text-anchor: start or end
> The text is then placed in the svg:text element. For example
> <svg:text x="0" y="0" style="text-anchor:start;">Test</svg:text>
> will place the text Test starting at (0,0).
>
> I note that this feature was added on 2001-05-18 but is completely
> undocumented (excluding ChangeLog and objects/custom/test.xml). I will
> submit a bug regarding the lack of doco (#86402). I should write the doco...
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
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