I am perhaps only adding to the noise, but in case some of you believe that Jon could be inclined to have a positive but twisted opinion on Adobe's products, then I am happy to say that Adobe did an excellent job with the SVG export in Adobe Illustrator CS2. Learning that Adobe is still investing on SVG is great news. Let's hope it will continue after the October/November time frame.
Marc --- In [email protected], Jon Ferraiolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will back up I'lam's response to say that Adobe continues to invest > heavily in improving its SVG support in Adobe Illustrator. SVG support > (particularly, SVG-Tiny) was one of the major engineering investment areas > with the CS2 version of Illustrator. The investment continues: there will > be further SVG improvements in the next version of Illustrator, also. > > Jon Ferraiolo > Adobe Systems, Inc. > > At 04:02 PM 8/15/2005, I'lam Mougy wrote: > >Short answer, not true. > > > >Illustrator CS2 (and CS) tries to write primitive if > >it can. If you draw a perfect circle, it will write a > >circle element, if you draw an elipse it will write an > >elipse, if you draw rectangle (even rotated), it will > >write rect with the proper rotation, only in complex > >transformation things default to path element. > > > >On the other hand (this is only in CS2), if you import > >primitives, it will preserve them too, so if you > >import a line element, it will keep it line when > >exported, if you import an elipse that has rx=ry, it > >will keep it elipse, even though it looks like circle. > >In CS2, animation is preserved as well as any XML > >data that is not understood by Illustrator. This > >applies to script element, some defs, etc..., you will > >be able to see those "unknown" elements in the layer > >palette as objects that you can move around. > > > >The goal in Illustrator CS2, among small exported file > >size, is to round trip svg files that are not created > >entirely in Illustrator. > > > >I'lam > > > >--- Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is the following true? > > > > > > "When exporting vectors to SVG, Adobe Illustrator > > > creates only <path> > > > elements, not SVG primitives. Even though Adobe > > > Illustrator has an > > > ellipse tool and a rectangle tool, it does not > > > export <rect> or > > > <ellipse> elements. <circle>, <line>, <polyline>, > > > and <polygon> > > > elements are not generated, either. Therefore, you > > > cannot employ a > > > technique (like a script or an SVG animation > > > element) that manipulates > > > a special characteristic of a primitive. For > > > example, you cannot write > > > JavaScript > > > function to change the radius of a circle, because > > > Adobe Illustrator > > > will not export an object as a <circle> element. (Of > > > course, you could > > > always edit an SVG document by hand and replace a > > > <path> element with > > > a <circle>.)" > > > > > > I can see that Illustrator CS2 does rely on <path> > > > element but when I > > > downloaded the trial version, I could see two two > > > <rect> elements when > > > I created svg file from Illustrator CS2 after using > > > the rectangle tool > > > in the shape toolbar. > > > > > > Does anybody knows how Illustrator exports SVG? What > > > elements it uses > > > etc..? > > > > > > thanks > > > JM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >----- > >To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-or- > >visit > ><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg- developers>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers > >and click "edit my membership" > >---- > > > > > > > >---------- > >YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > * Visit your group > > "<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers>svg-developers" on the web. > > * > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > * > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] subject=Unsubscribe>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > * > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > > >---------- > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hdad7kq/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1706030389:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124223094/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
