[xep-support] Re: SVG Image tag pulls wrong image into PDF

Please send a small, complete example with the images and SVG to support @
renderx so we can look at the issue.

Kevin Brown

RenderX

From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of
Darren Munt
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 11:31 PM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: [xep-support] SVG Image tag pulls wrong image into PDF

This is a very strange one. It is reproducible on my dev machine (Windows
10) and on our production server (Windows 2008 R2), so I think I can rule
out environment.

I'm embedding an SVG object into the document using
<fo:instream-foreign-object>. The SVG describes a line chart which uses GIF
images as point markers. The images are icons which represent different
questions that were asked, each icon represents one question, and they are
displayed in the order that the question was answered by the user, from left
to right.

The SVG is quite large so I won't copy it all, but the icons are embedded
with this code:

<image x="53" y="233" width="46" height="46"
xlink:href="d:\torqicons\PathAnalysis_up.gif" />

I have included the xlink namespace in SVG tag.

What is happening is that some of the <image> tags are displaying the wrong
image. It seems to be completely at random. If I look at the FO, I see the
correct file name, but the PDF output will have one of the other icons
instead of the one that was specified. I can rebuild the PDF several times
and it will either display the same incorrect icons, or it will randomly
change to showing the wrong image for a different one. The only thing that
is consistent is that it never shows all 12 icons correctly.

Beneath this SVG, I also have a table, which is a key to the icons. It
displays the same images used in the SVG with some descriptive text. This
uses exactly the same file name and they are always displayed correctly. The
image is embedded with this code:

<fo:external-graphic vertical-align="middle" content-width="0.8cm"
src="url(d:\torqicons\PathAnalysis_up.gif)" />

As you can see the image path is identical.

In an attempt to see where the problem is occurring, I duplicated all of the
SVG image tags and added an 'x' to the end of the file name in one copy of
each of the 12 images. Like this:

<image x="53" y="233" width="46" height="46"
xlink:href="d:\torqicons\PathAnalysis_up.gif" />

<image x="53" y="233" width="46" height="46"
xlink:href="d:\torqicons\PathAnalysis_up.gifx" />

When I transform this FO into a PDF, I see the same jumbled images but if I
now look at the XEP logger output I see 12 messages like this:

SVG element 'image' ignored: com.renderx.svg.SVGParseException:
java.net.MalformedURLException: Invalid URL or non-existent file:
d:\torqicons\ PathAnalysis_up.gifx

They are all the correct file name and in the correct order. So this tells
me that XEP is getting the correct file name and is attempting to load the
correct image, but the wrong image is ending up in the output.

It appears something strange is happening in the SVG rendering. Would
appreciate any assistance in getting to the bottom of it. I can supply FO to
reproduce. I have attached a screenshot of the PDF output and indicated on
it which icons are wrong. As I say it is random and not always the same ones
that are wrong. I have included the variable part of the file name next to
the icon so that it can be seen which icon is meant to be there.

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Received on Tue Aug 30 10:44:20 2016