--- In [email protected], "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/31/06, Andreas Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems like SVG is not yet dead inside Adobe. > > > Not at all! > > > > Here is another project > > by Adobe to embed static SVG inside a "Mars" file format, which is > > basically a zip folder containing xml files (one per page) which > > links to SVG/PNG/JPEG/JPEG2000 files. > > > You can also read about it on my blog at > <http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr>. As you'll see, I am > also now with Adobe and one of my responsibilities is the > evangelization (is that a real word?!?!) of Mars. > > In addition to Mars, the new Digital Editions project from Adobe also > supports static SVG inside of XHTML-based eBooks. > > > Leonard > newly minted, "Technical Standards Evangelist" > Adobe Systems >
Leonard Thanks for the info. I was interested until I looked at the specs on your site. I am currently using Batik to convert SVG to PDF and thought Mars would be a far easier solution. However the following missing features are killers for what I do. 1. No CSS attrubutes in SVG. While XML attributes are possible, it is just easier in some cases to use style attributes in SVG. The lack of support in Mars will make this very difficult. 2. No textPath support. This is a killer for me. PostScript support s this - why not Mars?? 3. No text-anchor support except "start". Specifing the center of a piece of text and having it centered regardless of the length is essential. 4. No marker support. I use markers hundreds of times in a display. 5. No font selection. I can't even specify font-size="bold" ? 6. No filter support. 7. color spaces. This whole section confused me but it appears you can't use the standard RGB or HSV spaces and have to create Adobe stardard binary files with lookup tables in separate directories in the archive. Others on this list may have other concerns. The reference is at: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/mars/mars_reference.pdf See the section of SVG features excluded from Mars. I am posting this here so others using SVG can give other comments as well. I think the idea of a zipped archive with SVG as the main rendering language is great but it will not be usable for what I do with the limitations listed above. Bruce Rindahl ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
