[BATIK-953] Trailing whitespace in tspan elements breaks text-anchor alignment (only on Windows?)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Fix Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: GVT Text
• Environment: Operating System: Windows Vista; Platform: PC; URL: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-batik-users/201008.mbox/browser#msg-1
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Helder Magalhães
• Created: 10/Aug/10 10:12
• Updated: 11/Apr/17 11:01
• Resolved: 27/Nov/14 15:08

Description

Trailing whitespace seems to trigger a weird issue where text contents are thrown right a lot more than expected. It's as if "text-anchor" inheritance was no longer honored in these cases (and reset to "start", the lacuna value).

Bug's URL points to a thread ("JSVGCanvas Problems - Rendering and Writing") which contains the original test case and a modified test case which doesn't reproduce the issue (basically, with trailing whitespace trimmed).

According to the thread, the issue doesn't seem to reproduce on Linux. Can anyone else confirm and provide information for MacOS as well?

BATIK-689 seems tightly related, although the issue is not quite the same (it refers to a MacOS-specific issue). Also, thread "tspans fail to line up" [1] seems related as well. I wonder if all these are the same...?

A possible workaround is to make sure tspan elements don't contain trailing whitespace.

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-batik-users/200701.mbox/browser#msg-19

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: BATIK-959 Multi-line text not aligned correctly
• is duplicated by: BATIK-1017 Text alignment gets distorted when SVG is converted to PNG image