Re: [docbook-apps] more than 15 callouts?

From
Dave Pawson <>
Date
2005-12-20T09:03:51+00:00
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1135069333.3484.9.camel@marge
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Re: [docbook-apps] more than 15 callouts?
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 23:35 +0300, Nikolai Grigoriev wrote:

> Just an idea: what about using SVG for callouts? It would be easy 
> to add something like this to fo/callouts.xsl:

> </fo:instream-foreign-object>
> 
> This would produce callouts in vector format, and free us from worries about upper limits. 
> Other benefits are ease of styling, and possibility to use non-digital numbering for callouts. 
> Sure, it would take longer to process, but the resulting PDF will be smaller, and numbers 
> will be searchable. Does it sound appealing?

I like the idea Nikolai, but Firefox doesn't have SVG natively (as yet).
  When its native it would be far more convenient.

How hard would it be to capture them in a png format from the generated
SVG?

Any volunteers?
 All of Norm Walsh's images are the same size.

regards DaveP