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SVG.txt for Tux Paint
Tux Paint - A simple drawing program for children.
Copyright 2002-2007 by Bill Kendrick and others
bill@newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.tuxpaint.org/
June 19, 2007 - June 19, 2007
$Id: SVG.txt,v 1.1 2007/06/21 01:00:15 wkendrick Exp $
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open standard used to describe
two-dimensional vector graphics. It is great for diagrams and shapes,
while PNGs are better for photographs. SVG files are a bit like instructions
on how to make an image. This means that they can be resized without looking
pixelated or blocky.
Wikipedia, an online user-driven encyclopedia, has lots more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics
SVGs On the Web
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Web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari and Opera have some
SVG support. A plugin is available to see SVG images in older versions of
Microsoft Internet Explorer ( http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ ).
How to make SVGs
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Linux/Unix users
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A popular Open Source program used to make SVGs is Inkscape
( http://www.inkscape.org/ ). This will most likely be packaged for
your distribution / operating system.
An earlier program (which Inkscape is based on) is Sodipodi
( http://www.sodipodi.com/ ).
Libraries which support SVG include Cairo ( http://cairographics.org/ )
and Batik ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ ).
Mac and Windows users
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Inkscape is available for Mac OSX and Windows. (See above.)
Commercial software like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Microsoft Visio
have SVG support.
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