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Subject: [xep-support] FW: RTL direction attribute in SVG background image
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 09:49:29 +1100
From: Darren Munt <
darrenm@ardex.com.au>
Reply-To: RenderX Community Support List <
xep-support@renderx.com>
To:
xep-support@renderx.com <
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May have sent this to the wrong support address….
*From:*Darren Munt
*Sent:* Thursday, 8 December 2016 5:31 PM
*To:* '
support@renderx.com' <
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*Subject:* RTL direction attribute in SVG background image
Trying to use an SVG background image to an fo:block. The SVG contains
Arabic text, which is RTL. I have set the direction attribute on the SVG
element to “RTL” but it does not appear to be honoured. The output text
is back to front.
The SVG looks like this:
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" direction="rtl">
<text fill="#000000" x="8cm" y="1cm" font-size="1.5cm"
font-family="Arabic Typesetting" text-anchor="middle">??????</text>
I have it in a separate file at present and I’m importing it as follows:
<fo:block keep-together.within-page="always" space-after="0.0cm"
font-size="0.5cm" background-image="url('nonrunnerbanner-ar.svg')"
border-bottom-width="0.02cm" border-bottom-color="#a59266"
border-bottom-style="solid">
…
</fo:block>
In the English version of this document, I am using an embedded base64
version of the SVG. I want to do the same here but I can’t get it
writing right to left.
Is there a way to get this text RTL, or do I need to resort to using an
image instead?