--- Jason Dewayne Clinton wrote:
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:33 am, Kelsay, Brian
- Kansas City, MO
wrote:
Netscape 8.0.4 shows text only. No plug-in. Mozilla 1.7.12 shows text only.
Yea, Firefox 1.5 or greater.
Hmm that's odd. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. It works in my Mozilla 1.7.12 version, but the first time I opened the page it complained about SVG and fonts. I don't see an SVG plug-in, but there are lots of plug-ins installed.
However, seeing the code of the page, I have to say so what. The graphic is defined in ems. Any graphic described as ems would size with the changing of size in the font. However, I've never seen a graphic listed as an object on a web page before. Still, it should be possible to use style sheets with a web page and get the graphic scaling achieved here. The only difference I see, it the lack of pixelation of standard graphics.
While SVG is cool, I don't see much use for this on the web. I consider it a publishing format or an engineering format. But then I also don't like to see website with flash either, so I'm definitely not in the majority opinion group. ;')
Also, on another reply. If you are having difficulty reading street names on a map output at 600 dpi, then you're probably printing the map too small (or you might need a magnifying glass). Commercial maps are printed at resolutions of 300 dpi. Your problem isn't pixel or point related. A point is printed out at 1/72". All printers do this. If your printer doesn't then there is something wrong with your printer, or you're not using printer fonts, or the map you are printing is not to scale with the printer, or the printer is configured to "shrink to fit". Remember you can't rely on any web page being WYSIWYG.
JMHO, Brian JD