Labels are not exported in svg, dimensions are offsetted

[reox]

I noticed that the Annotation labels are not exported in the SVG and also hidden when you click "Turn View frames on or off".

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I think this is not the intended behaviour?

there is also something with the dimensions: In FreeCAD they look fine (I think they should be a little more above the line, because the comma is intersecting the line) but in the SVG the whole number intersects the line.
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[wandererfan]

I noticed that the Annotation labels are not exported in the SVG and also hidden when you click "Turn View frames on or off".
I think this is not the intended behaviour?

This is intentional. The View labels are not printed by default. This is a left over from when the View Name was displayed (ie View001) I think. You can use KeepLabel property to override.

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there is also something with the dimensions: In FreeCAD they look fine (I think they should be a little more above the line, because the comma is intersecting the line) but in the SVG the whole number intersects the line.

Text exported to Svg isn't scaled properly. It hasn't worked quite right since the export to svg function was added. I'll take another look at it, but I seem to recall that a lot of hacks were tried, but none of them ever worked right for all cases.

[reox]

This is intentional. The View labels are not printed by default. This is a left over from when the View Name was displayed (ie View001) I think. You can use KeepLabel property to override.
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Ohh now I understand - do'h
I saw this option but thought it did something else...

[wandererfan]

there is also something with the dimensions: In FreeCAD they look fine (I think they should be a little more above the line, because the comma is intersecting the line) but in the SVG the whole number intersects the line.

This is a note to some future programmer who looks into fixing this issue with Svg Page Export.

All/most text on a drawing pages is displaced and shrunken on export to Svg.

QSvgGenerator appears to use the system default font for all text. It tries to adjust the size and position of the text using svg transform matrix. This does not work very well when the default and the font specified in the FC document are dissimilar (ex Ubuntu vs osifont).

To fix this, we could hide all the text in the drawing and insert correct text clauses into the Template's Svg code. Text in Template survives export via QSvgGenerator. New code to hide dimension text and captions would be needed.

[tpavlicek]

Hello,

I will revive this thread . I have also noticed the dimension texts are shifted once the drawing is exported to SVG. After spending some time trying to figure out why, I have found the SVG export "magic" transformation does not work properly. As we are all rather technically oriented, I am proposing a standard engineering approach instead of magic

First of all, we must be sure the font size on screen is correct and matches the size of other elements, namely part dimensions, line thickness, dimension arrows, etc. For this we need to properly convert the (user configured) font size in mm to font point size on the logical screen device. The correct formula goes like this:

fontPointSize = ((fontSizeInMM*MMtoPixels)/logicalDPI)*inchToPoints

logicalDPI is provided by the window we are using to paint on, inchToPoints is always 72, MMtoPixels is in FreeCAD source code currently set to 10.0. Once the font size is correct, it is enough to set SVG resolution to the same DPI the screen device reports, usually 96. No black magic involved, just simple as that.

I have created a pull request with the fix, hopefully You will find it useful and suitable for merge.

The downside of this fix is the default font sizes must be adjusted and the users will need to update their font size configuration, otherwise the (currently default) 3.5mm sized font becomes quite hard to read. Nevertheless this is correct, because the full height is reserved only for the tallest font glyphs like | (pipe character) or ▯ (non-existing glyph placeholder).

Kind regards,

Tomas

[Kunda1]

@tpavlicek PR at https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/2219

[wandererfan]

I have created a pull request with the fix, hopefully You will find it useful and suitable for merge.

I am so happy to see this one fixed - git commit fad4db3300.

Thank you, Tomas.