676593 - font offset when resetting transform attribute

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Victor]

Attachment: Reload the page if you don't see the difference. 800ms after the load event the transform attribute gets reset and the distance between the characters changes.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110622232440

Steps to reproduce:

reset the transform attribute of a group to the same scaled value


Actual results:

the text inside the group is rendered differently after script execution:

the distance between the characters changes


Expected results:

as the transform attribute contains the same value than before i expect the same results

Comment 1

[Victor]

Attachment: Reload the page if you don't see the difference. 800ms after the load event the transform attribute gets reset and the distance between the characters changes.

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Does setting text-rendering to geometricPrecision fix this. I suspect we won't fix this if so as when the text is animated we might draw it with a faster code path, possibly without kerning, than when it isn't.

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Confirmed against Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110804 Firefox/8.0a1 ID:20110804072849.

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Attachment: with text-rendering="geometricPrecision"

Comment 5

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

geometricPrecision does what you want.