Converting svg to pdf: Why am I losing my text? - pdf

Question

I'm using Batik to convert an svg to a pdf. The pdf that Batik outputs has no text. The svg does have text. If I use Batik to rasterize to png, I do get text.
The font I am using is Arial. I am on a debian box. Arial is installed. Here is the command I am using:
/usr/bin/java -jar /usr/local/share/java/batik-1.7/batik-rasterizer.jar \
-m application/pdf -bg 255.255.255.255 -d /tmp/olV0zQ_wYQ/chart.pdf \
/tmp/tAi25KAE2z/tmp.svg
And then I get the following output:
About to transcode 1 SVG file(s)
Converting tmp.svg to /tmp/olV0zQ_wYQ/chart.pdf ... ... success
Here is my svg file.

Answer 1

I just had the same problem.
It worked fine on the local machine but not on a distant server (debian).
I solved it by repositionning the text (the font was there but was out of view)
Please try this :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="500" height="330" viewBox="0 0 500 300">
<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
.xAxisLabels
{
color: #000000;
font-family: Arial
}
]]></style>
<title>title</title>
<desc>stuff</desc>
<defs>
<font-face font-family="Arial">
<font-face-src>
<font-face-uri xlink:href="/usr/share/hholdings/fonts/Arial.ttf"/>
</font-face-src>
</font-face>
</defs>
<text transform="translate(112.5 300)" class="xAxisLabels">jan</text>
<text transform="translate(204.17 300)" class="xAxisLabels">feb</text>
<text transform="translate(295.84 300)" class="xAxisLabels">mar</text>
<text transform="translate(387.51 300)" class="xAxisLabels">apr</text>
</svg>