flowPara doesn't render in any other renderer

[Jakub Steiner]

We aim to use plain SVGs for translatable text strings in GNOME [1]. To allow for varying string size and right to left languages, the block text Inkscape tool would be ideal to use. When tested with the rsvg backend for gdk-pixbuf, the flowPara block is filled with the color rather than the contained text in RSVG. I have filed that against rsvg [2].

But looking into it I discovered that most renderers like Firefox, Chrome or Lasem will nt render the block at all. I have attached a sample SVG that I got by exporting plain SVG, similar behavior can be observed with the inkscape namespaced native SVG too.

I am not versed with SVG enough to see what's going on and if it's just a styling issue, but I would welcome the plain SVG to feature something that can render in Firefox/Chrome or at least know for sure the included markup and styling is valid and has some non-inkscape implementation so I can wrestle the other projects to fix their rendering.

[1] https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups-software/tree/master/experiments/translatable-banners
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768562

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Related (or duplicate?): Bug #167335 "flowed text has no SVG 1.1-compliant fallback"
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167335>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

IMvHO a duplicate ...

A somewhat dated (with regard to the timeline of SVG recommendations actually published by the W3C) and technical explanation is included in the original FAQ, describing the long-standing, known issue / consequences of a decision made a long time ago by the 'Inkscape' project to implement a feature (flowed text) based on a draft version of a (unfinished and later dropped) SVG specification (SVG 1.2 never replaced current REC SVG 1.1, the next REC will be SVG2):
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_about_flowed_text.3F