Hello, The Apache Batik software is a free, open-source programmer's toolkit to create, generate, view and transcode Scalable Vector Graphics images, an XML syntax for rich 2D graphics (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG). The Apache Batik team is very happy to announce that Batik 1.0 is released: http://xml.apache.org/batik The Apache Batik software leverages the Java 2D API capabilities extensively. Batik 1.0 supports most of the static SVG features and fully supports linking in addition. Furthermore, Batik 1.0 supports a first level of scripting. Since the first beta release in December 2000, many features have been added or completed. Here are a few highlights on the new features: + Full filter effects support: lighting filters, drop shadows, displacement effects and more. + Full text support: Batik 1.0 supports embedded and external SVG Fonts, international text, vertical text and other fancy text features such as text on a path. + Full linking support: with SVG and Batik, you can navigate and link images just like you do with HTML pages. This is a powerful tool for building dynamic applications with SVG. + Full support for structural elements such as internal and external use/defs and switch elements. This is a important feature to organize your SVG content efficiently. + Performance improvements with major work in the rendering engine and the SVG processor engine. + Improved SVG generator (an API for exporting SVG from Java technology applications) which now offers more control over the output SVG + Improved SVG rasterizer (a tool to convert SVG images to raster formats such as JPEG, PNG or TIFF). + Multiple contributions, such as format converters (WMF to SVG and True Type Font to SVG Font) or tools to generate SVG charts. Here are some important Batik resources: + get an on-line demo of the new software at: http://xml.apache.org/batik/batikDemo.html + download the new software at: http://xml.apache.org/batik/dist + post questions about the Batik project on the Batik mailing lists: http://xml.apache.org/batik/mailList.html + request extensions or report problems at: http://nagoya.betaversion.org/bugzilla/ We hope you will enjoy this new release of the Apache Batik software. Best regards. The Batik Team. =========================================================================== 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".
