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However, I have no wish to display SVG images in a browser, I might want to import SVGs as vector objects to use as, say, scaleable icons/buttons.

I have just used this service: https://www.vertopal.com/ to produce an SVG image from my text (which is far, far inferior to what LiveCode is pumping out): - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 17.23.28.png - Opening that file in a text editor I can see why it is "what it is": " Created by potrace 1.16, writte...

I have downloaded a free SVG image from the internet that CAN be imported into LiveCode: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 17.02.57.png - Beetle.svg.zip - Examining that image in a text editor I notice the signal difference between it and my exported SVG image is that it contains this text at the start: <!...

I have a feeling that the SVG parsers in the browser and Inkscape are reading the WIDTH of the image wrongly. - SVG from Text 2.livecode.zip - I am now going to "fool around" with image widths . . . on mouseUp set the width of fld "f1" to ((the formattedWidth of fld "f1") * 1.5) set the height of fl...

I mucked around with the code so that an SVG is exported that is not automatically 800 x 800 pixels: on mouseUp set the width of fld "f1" to the formattedWidth of fld "f1" set the height of fld "f1" to the formattedHeight of fld "f1" set the left of fld "f1" to 40 set the top of fld "f1" to 40 -- pu...

Of course, I could send "openCard" to the desired controls by "send" or "dispatch" but I don't know which controls should receive this message.

Well . . .

My recent experience with A.I. did not make me think of "reconstituted pork products", it made me think rather more of pot-au-feu , especially the way certain "sausages" kept coming round again and again, and the way that the robot forgot I didn't like "mushrooms" (over use of quotation marks), yet ...

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Ouch: that is a bit disappointing.

But that problem is NOT, Bernd, with your code, it has more to do with the fact that LiveCode can only adequately render a subset of all SVG files.

Thank you very much indeed for both your help and your forbearance.

Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 12.24.35.png - Browser: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 12.24.27.png - No 'font retention'. Inkscape: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 12.25.18.png - That is wonderful insofar as re both size and font everything looks the way it did in the text field. Now. let's try and import that SV...

Well, that certainly works for Bulgarian:
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Although 'font retention' does not seem to be there when I open the result in Inkscape:
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Let's live dangerously and try a bit of Sanskrit in Devanagari script:
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And this in Inkscape:
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So, just to see how far things would stretch I tried this:
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And got this in Inkscape:
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So, NO, I am sorry, that does not "do it for me".

Wondering if the thing took umbrage at my complex font I thought I would try this:
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Using an extremely 'pedestrian' font.

I got this in a browser:
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And so: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 10.44.35.png - on mouseUp put fld "f1" into tText put fld "fHeader" into tHeader put fld "fTextStart1" into tTextStart1 put the textFont of fld "f1" into fld "fTextStart2" put fld "fTextStart2" into tTextStart2 put fld "fTextStart3" into tTextStart3 put the textSiz...

Oh, Bernd: I almost love you: and the thing that prevents that is the frustration I feel from wrestling with a robot for about 4 hours.

Cripes: the robot just suggested code containing this: