Hi. I'm considering Prince for a project now, where I need to be able to draw charts in the pdf (svg, created with/by EJSChart - a js library).

The chart itselfs shows up in the pdfs, but none of the axis-labels etc.. This is how the svg looks:

CODE IN NEXT POST, was not allowed to post links since its my first post.

I'm wondering, does not prince support textPath-elements? If so, are there any way I can transform than svg to work with prince?

Other than that, _great_ product. I'm having a grand time trying it out

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Prince does not support textPath at this time. However, if the text labels are in a straight line, then it may be possible to just use regular text elements and a transformation to position and rotate them as necessary.

I've just run up against this lack of textPath support. I read on another thread that improvements to SVG handling are planned for Prince 7.1, could you please consider implementing textPath support?

Sure, we'll add this to the roadmap.

Many thanks Mike, and thank you also for the quick reply!

Hi Prince,

Just wanted to add a strong vote for the text-on-a-path feature; we currently build our own dynamic SVGs on-the-fly and using curved text (for pie headings) is essential to the design (when I say dynamic, I mean that there could be any number of pie slices, these could be grouped in any combination of parents (which form a pie-slice-spanning "crust"), and the whole thing has to work in multiple languages.

We're not using Prince at this moment but are seriously considering it; there are many advantages to Prince over our existing FO solution but not having text-on-a-path is almost a show stopper for us.

Thanks,

Andy

We will take another look at this and see if we can move it up the roadmap.

Prince 10 is now available, and includes support for SVG textPath. Thank you for your patience.