[BATIK-778] Generic font families shadowed by fonts of the same name

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: CSS
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All; URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-family-prop
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Cameron McCormack
• Created: 06/Oct/07 01:49
• Updated: 22/Sep/10 06:25

Description

If an AWT or SVG font has a name that is the same as a generic font family,
such as "sans-serif", then using font-family="sans-serif" fails to select the
generic font family as it should. In this situation, font-family="'sans-
serif'" would need to be used to select the AWT/SVG font with the name "sans-
serif".

Test showing this:

<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='480' height='360'>
<font horiz-adv-x="500">
<font-face font-family="sans-serif" font-weight="normal"
units-per-em="1000" ascent="800" descent="200"
alphabetic="200"/>
<missing-glyph horiz-adv-x="500"
d="M0 0L500 0L500 1000L0 1000M50 50L50 950L450 950L450
50Z"/>
<glyph unicode="A" glyph-name="square" d="M0 250L500 250L500 750L0 750Z"/>
</font>
<g font-size='48' text-anchor='middle'>
<text x='200' y='150' font-family='sans-serif'>A</text>
<text x='280' y='150' font-family='"sans-serif"'>A</text>
</g>
</svg>