svg, pdf, png, and jpg callouts 1-99

I found myself 
wanting more than 10 callouts and wanting them too look crisp in pdf, so I made 
some svg callouts (and used Batik to convert them to other formats for use in 
html). I'm actually using the pdf version of the callouts in my output because 
XEP wasn't rendering the svgs for me. It renders other svgs fine, but I don't 
have time right now to mess with it. However, it occurs to me that a better 
solution would be to have the DocBook xsls write the svg directly into the fo. 
In fact, to make these, I just made one svg with a circle and a character in the 
middle, then looped 99 times using sed to number the callouts. Be aware tho that 
I manually tweaked #1 and #4 just slightly to make them appear more centered and 
legible. 

 

In any case, if 
someone wants to use them as is or work with this some more, e.g. futz with the 
sizing to get it just right...mine are a little bigger than the current callouts 
or incorporate them into the DocBook xsls so they put the svg directly into the 
fo, feel free: http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/callouts.zip

 

Btw., if you ever 
manage to use all 99 callouts in a programlisting, I'd love to see it 
:-)

 

David