SVG xlink namespace bug: still in Visio 2007

You should set the font-size units not to "pt" but to "px" (PIXELS).
Or re-map pixels to points.

BTW, this seems to be exactly the issue: Visio SVG export assumes the
default font size units to be "px" (pixels), while Firefox/Opera/
Chrome assume the default font size units to be "pt" (points).
Unfortunately I haven't found in the SVG spec which assumption is the
correct one; but anyways, it would be really nice of Visio to specify
the measurement units explicitly... I mean, since 12pt ~ 16px, we have
this rendering problem! Since this problem requires typling only only
2 extra characters, unlike 41 extra characters for the
"xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'", probably it has better
chances of being fixed in 2010? ;D

Kind regards, Nikolay.

On Aug 23, 11:07*pm, Nikolay Belyh wrote:
Not that it matters much. The incomprehensible use of multiple styles
seems designed to make any Visio-generated SVG look terrible. I don't
see that Visio - SVG is of any real use at all---time to use some
other tool for this task.

You should set the font-size units not to "pt" but to "px" (PIXELS).

Ok.

BTW, I believe that Microsoft initially tested the SVG export with ASV
(adobe svg viewer), because with IE + ASV it works just perfectly
without any additional "fixtures"... But unfortunately since ASV has
gone for good (ADOBE discontinued it last year), it would be really
nice to make Visio generate SVG properly...

I think you're right. I expect that Adobe FrameMaker uses the Adobe
SVG Viewer to render SVG images, and the output from Visio renders
just fine. And back when the SVG export filter was developed, the
Adobe viewer was probably the best viewer out there (on Windows, at
least).

But the Visio SVG doesn't render perfectly in all cases. For example,
I have a block diagram that has a lot of two-line text, e.g.,

Some
Text

Even though the text has the same font settings in Visio for the top
and bottom lines, Visio insists on applying different styles to each
line in the SVG file, e.g., ".st2" for the top and ".st3" for the
bottom. The styles are defined like this:

.st2 {fill:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:0.666664em}
.st3 {font-size:1em}

Adobe SVG Viewer seems to be the only viewer that can render this in
any sort of reasonable way (I've tried several). Any ideas on this new
madness?

-Adam