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2003/10/3-4 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:10450 Activity:nil

10/3    Anybody know of a linux application to create and view SVG's? I know
        I could "draw" them in emacs-xml-mode, but I want to see them!
        \_ I think KDE 3.2 will partially support them.
        \_ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg

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www.mozilla.org/projects/svg -> www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/SVG is to graphics what XHTML is to text, MathML is to mathematical equations and CML is to the description of chemical molecules. SVG is similar in scope to Macromedias proprietary Flash technology: among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary paths, text and animations. What distinguishes SVG from Flash, is that it is a W3 recommendation ie a standard for all intents and purposes and that it is XML-based as opposed to a closed binary format. It is explicitly designed to work with other W3C standards such as CSS, DOM and SMIL. Status While we are still a long way away from full SVG support, the subset currently implemented is already pretty useable. We have support for all basic shapes including beziers, stroking and filling with opacity and much of the DOM. Big areas of the SVG specification where were still lacking include clipping, filters and declarative animations. February 2004, the Mozilla SVG implementation has support for pluggable rendering backends. The features supported by Mozilla SVG vary somewhat with the backend used. Currently the most feature-rich backend is the Windows GDI backend. Jerritt Collord has thrown together a little script that helps automate the W3C tests here . While SVG is not switched on by default in official Mozilla builds, the code is checked into the Mozilla CVS repository and you can either build it yourself or download a binary for the most popular platforms. For more details about how to build Mozilla with SVG support and more information about the different binaries on offer for downloading, please see the MozillaSVG build page . For the impatient, here are some links to recent SVG-enabled Mozilla build: Windows >Win95 .