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SVG Resources
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is one of the most exciting specifications
emerging from the multitude of W3C
XML vocabularies.
SVG enables the creation of resolution- and media-independent graphics
in a text-based format that permits integration with
XHTML,
XSL and
XSLT,
XLink,
DOM and other W3 specifications,
including support for CSS,
scripting, and animation.
As you can see from the software listed below, there are a number of ways to
use SVG today. See our Sept. 1999 article for a
gentle introduction.
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Last Modified:
July 1, 2002
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W3C SVG Information
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SVG FAQs
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SVG Tutorials
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SVG Viewers and Plugins
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SVG Editors/Authoring Tools
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SVG Toolkits
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- Apache Batik SVG Toolkit 1.1
- set of core modules such as SVG parsers, SVG generators and SVG DOM implementations,
in addition to an SVG Viewer which demonstrates the integration of the modules.
- CSIRO SVG Toolkit
- contains an SVG viewer from March 2002,
an implementation of the SVG DOM (DOM2) and a utility for rendering
an SVG document into various image formats; requires JDK 1.2.2
plus several other packages
(not included).
- Savage SVG Toolkit
- programmatically create, modify, query, validate and output SVG elements. Embedding the SVG Toolkit within
another application allows that program to generate, manipulate and output SVG documents and
document fragments on the fly through an API. Supports
SVG, XML, DOM, XSL, CSS, JavaScript and ECMAScript. ANSI C++ source code with
eventual cross platform support (Windows, Unix, or Mac OS).
- SVGObjects
- framework for vending SVG content from WebObjects; may be used to preview
PDF-quality documents and generate basic Flash-like animation on-the-fly.
- <svg:embed>
- small JSP/SVG tag library with which you can combine SVG/JSP/JAVA inside
Tomcat / Resin / Weblogic to generate any kind of SVG content from dynamic databases.
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SVG Converters
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Other SVG Software
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SVG Articles
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- Sacre SVG
- monthly column by Antoine Quint for XML.com
- Extending SVG for XForms
- Antoine Quint, XML.com; May 2002
- Hot and Fresh Technology for the Enterprise
- Antoine Quint, XML.com; Apr. 2002
- SVG Tips and Tricks, Part One
- Antoine Quint, XML.com; Mar. 2002
- Doing That Drag Thang
- Antoine Quint, XML.com; Feb. 2002
- Digging Animation
- Antoine Quint, XML.com; Jan. 2002; short but great animation tutorial
- Scalable Vector Graphics: The Art is in the Code
- Eddie Traversa, WebReference.com; Nov. 2001; covers a lot of ground
- SVG: Where Are We Now?
- Antoine Quint, XML.com; Nov. 2001; viewing and authoring software reviewed
- Transforming XML into SVG
Doug Tidwell, IBM; Nov. 2000
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): An Executive Summary
- Vincent Hardy, Sun Microsystems; Aug. 2000
- Generating SVG with JSP
- Sun Microsystems; Aug. 2000
- Writing a custom Graphics2D implementation to generate SVG images
- Vincent Hardy, Sun Microsystems; Aug. 2000
- A Family Affair (Style Matters column)
- by Didier Martin for xml.com; Apr. 2000 (XHTML, SVG, XSL, XSLT, DOM and WML)
- Integration by Parts: XSLT, XLink and SVG (Style Matters column)
- by Didier Martin for xml.com; Mar. 2000
- Component-Based Page Layouts (Style Matters column)
- by Didier Martin for xml.com; Feb. 2000 (SVG, XHTML, XSLT and XLink)
Playing with SVG
- Chris Lilley on SVG -
Builder.com's interview of W3C SVG lead; FAQ-like (Oct. 1999)
- Future Of Web Design (Part II)
- by Anthony Celeste for Corel Designer.com
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Get Ready for the Awesome Power of SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics -
by Kas Thomas for WebDeveloper.com
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SVG - What's in it for us? - by Janus Boye
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PNG, SVG, and JPEG 2000 - New Image Format Standards -
by Derrick Story (SVG section by Janus Boye) for WebReview
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WDVL's coverage of SVG from the May 1999
WWW8 conference
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Vector Graphics - Image Format of the Gods?
by Jeffrey Veen (webmonkey)
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Other SVG Resource Sites
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Submit additions or corrections to Ken Sall
for consideration.
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