The following is an announcement of a Java 2D-based SVG viewer from IBM. SVG is an XML grammar for representing scalable 2D graphics, text, and images being defined by the W3C (see http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG). > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:55:20 -0500 > Subject: Announcing updated SVGView - 0.2a > > > > Dear SVG users, interested parties, > > We are pleased to announce that we have just posted a significantly updated > version of the IBM SVGView application to our alphaWorks web site ( > http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com) for free download. The new version number is > 0.2a. > > SVGView is an SVG viewer written entirely in Java that exploits Java 2D and > IBM's award winning XML4J parser. > > This is the second version to be posted to alphaWorks. We posted the initial > version on July-30th 1999, and since then it has been downloaded more than 800 > times. We appreciate all of the nice words and suggestions we have received as > e-mails from users of the initial version. > > Here is a summary of some of the key new features in this release: > > SVGView now comes with over 70 fully annotated SVG sample files. > > New in this release: > > - Links (you can move between SVG files by mouse clicking on shapes) > - Linear gradients > - Radial Gradients > - Patterns & Textures (image patterns) > - Printing > - Selective validation. > - Support for more of the SVG syntax > - Upgraded to match the July-30th (19990730) spec and DTD > - Editable bookmarks > > Other key features (present in the first release) > - Graphical tool bar > - History window (plus back and forwards support) > - Fully interactive zoom rectangle with status of zoom level > > The following paragraphs have been cut/pasted from our readme file and > summarize the current level of SVG support provided by SVGView: > > Support is provided in part or in full for the following list > of features: > > Basic Shapes > - rectangles > - circles > - ellipses > - lines > - polylines > - polygons > Paths > Clipping > Transforms > Opacity > Colors > Images > Text > Fonts > Patterns & textures (image patterns) > Linear gradients > Radial gradients > Stroking > - Line ends > - Line joins > - Line widths > - Dashing > Filling > - even odd rule > - non zero rule > Text antialiasing > Shape antialiasing > Links > > > Supported SVG elements > > > The currently supported SVG element names (in alphabetical > order) are: > > <a> > <circle> > <data> > <defs> > <ellipse> > <g> > <image> > <line> > <linearGradient> > <path> > <pattern> > <polygon> > <polyline> > <radialGradient> > <rect> > <stop> > <style> > <svg> > <text> > > > Supported CSS style properties > > The currently supported CSS style properties (in alphabetical > order) are: > > clippath > fill > fill-opacity > fillrule > font-family > font-size > font-style > font-weight > stroke > stroke-antialiasing > stroke-dasharray > stroke-dashoffset > stroke-linecap > stroke-linejoin > stroke-miterlimit > stroke-opacity > stroke-width > text-antialiasing > visibility > > > > Please read the very detailed readme file (readme.txt) in the download package > for lot more information on all of the features and more. > > Thanks for your time, > > Kelvin Lawrence > > On behalf of the IBM SVG and Enterprise Transcoding team. > Austin, Texas. > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
