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RENESIS SVG Player 1.0 released

Posted by emiasys apropos implementations on Fri May 2nd, 2008 at 11:49:13 BST

Among the exciting features is a much higher stability as well as the Internet Explorer® Plugin and the Windows® Explorer® Plugin have been improved and do integrate perfectly. The RENESIS Core Engine has received a lot of attention and features an almost complete CSS 2.1 Engine, external stylesheets, almost complete DOM 3 Core and DOM 3 Events Support as well as increased compability with the SVG 1.1 Standard including the new support for Masks and Clipping, Text on Pathes, Embedded SVG Images, Embedded SVG Fonts, Support for switch Statements and much more.

Behind the scenes, event not noticeable on first sight, a lot of perfomance and memory tuning has been done. Through a new caching and update region algorithm, repainting happens a lot faster than ever before and partly beats out the Adobe® SVG Viewer application. There are still a lot of things to do to improve overall perfomance, especially on text and referenced elements, but overall, the perfomance has highly increased and does no longer depend on the actual size of the svg document or on how many objects are placed around.

BitFlash JSR226 and JSR287 to be deployed on Esmertec-powered mobile phones

Posted by AndrewE apropos implementations on Fri Apr 25th, 2008 at 11:50:20 BST

"The demand for customized handsets and improved user experience continues to increase," said Nico Finke, head of product management at Esmertec. "This partnership allows us to deliver high-quality 2D-graphics technology to our customers. We look forward to providing Quickoffice's products and continue our commitment to being the best in the industry."

http://www.quickoffice.com/news/quickoffice-press-releases/2008-press-releases/press-release-april-22-2008/

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ARM to provide BitFlash SVG to platform vendors and cell phone manufacturers

Posted by AndrewE apropos implementations on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 13:47:07 BST

Dallas, Texas, April 1, 2008: "Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of innovative software and solutions for the mobile business professional, today announced its Scalable Vector Graphics Tiny (SVGT) Platform has been selected by ARM to be optimized for the ARM Mali Graphics Architecture. The partnership will benefit developers of ARM technology-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and mobile platform vendors, such as Symbian and Windows Mobile.

http://www.quickoffice.com/news/quickoffice-press-releases/2008-press-releases/press-release-april-1-2008/

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Release of GEMï 1.2

Posted by Nico apropos tools on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 07:47:35 BST

GEMï (ex GUI) is a multiple windows system with scroll bars, resize, collapse and restore, move, zoom, menus (file open and close), dialogs, windows tabs, thumbnails, colorpicker, preferences, selective print, info, online help. It's main vocation is to be used on the web or private network. In remote use it can open project's files and save the user preferences.

GEMï is under LGPL license.

http://www.dotuscomus.com/svg/lib/library.html#gemi

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BitFlash and MobiTV team up to provide support for OMA-RME

Posted by AndrewE apropos implementations on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 11:58:30 BST

"Utilizing the Open Mobile Alliance Rich Media Environment (OMA-RME) application framework layer and a connected device such as a mobile handset or PC, MobiTV will provide an array of interactive applications to the field trial including voting, polling, mCommerce, interactive advertising, real-time audience measurement and key reporting capabilities that drive unique measurement. These enhancements will become indispensable in defining the next generation of mobile television applications and business models. MobiTV is working with world class partners including BitFlash and VisualOn, to create a ubiquitous reference standard and client platform ready for mass deployment across a wide variety of devices."

http://www.mobitv.com/about/press/releases/page=press/release_041408a

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Free Learn SVG E-Book: English and French

Posted by frosty apropos SVG on the Web on Mon Apr 7th, 2008 at 08:03:58 BST

The English and French editions of the LearnSVG.com ebook is now available for free and can be downloaded here: Learn SVG.

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Inkscape announces 0.46 release (adds PDF editing and more)

Posted by stelt apropos tools on Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 at 09:39:06 BST

The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents. Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X

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Blazonry to SVG Converter

Posted by clsn apropos SVG on the Web on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 10:24:50 BST

New to all this, but you folks may be interested.

I've made a server that converts Blazonry (the jargon for describing coats of arms) into SVG. The SVG I produce, near as I can tell, is mostly valid, though no web browser seems to be able to handle it well, and of libraries only rsvglib works right. So by default the server converts to PNG, but there's an option to see the SVG instead.

Take a look at http://web.meson.org/blazonserver/ and let me know what you think!

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How to do photoshop-like effects in SVG

Posted by operaed apropos articles on Tue Mar 4th, 2008 at 06:47:49 BST

For a tutorial on how to do photoshop-like effects in SVG head on over to dev.opera.com for an in-depth article on the subject.

This site also hosts a number of SVG-related articles that show you how to use SVG in modern web browsers.

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SVG Open 2008 abstract submission forms available

Posted by neumann apropos conferences on Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 at 06:56:06 BST

The SVG Open 2008 abstract submission forms are available. SVG Open is the worldwide SVG developers conference targeting SVG content developers and users, tool makers and people interested in advancing the SVG and related W3C specifications.

Please submit your abstracts at http://www.svgopen.org/ → Registration.

Looking forward to receiving many interesting abstracts!

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Firefox 3 T-Shirt Contest

Posted by stelt apropos SVG on the Web on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 07:27:52 BST

Firefox 3 T-Shirt Contest: send in your SVG before Sunday March 16th 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST). Good luck

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Integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit (feb.24th)

Posted by stelt apropos community events on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 20:21:29 BST

Next weekend FOSDEM (the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) takes place again in Brussels.
For the price of a voluntary donation you can meet loads of interesting people and see loads of interesting presentations.
"Integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit" by Alp Stoker for example:

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Send your love (mobile) SVG hearts for Valentine

Posted by stelt apropos SVG on the Web on Wed Feb 13th, 2008 at 02:37:12 BST

Thursday it's Valentines day. Surprise your love with a personalized moving message at her mobile via svghearts.com and i bet you she will show it off (coders can of course easily make more adjustments, like inserting a photo).

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Tutorial: Installation and integration of Apache Batik on Windows

Posted by neumann apropos tutorials on Tue Feb 5th, 2008 at 18:00:43 BST

Frank Bruder posted a tutorial on how to install Apache Batik on Windows and integrate it with the Windows Explorer. After the installation, users can open and convert SVG files to PNGs or PDFs directly from the Windows Explorer by right-clicking the SVG file. Additionally, truetype fonts can be converted to SVG fonts.

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SVG Open 2008 site on-line

Posted by stelt apropos conferences on Sun Jan 27th, 2008 at 20:32:06 BST

6th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics
26th to 28th August
Nuremberg | Germany

The world conference on SVG, the versatile 'HTML of graphics' standard, this year takes place in the beautiful city center of Nuremberg. That is in the south of Germany, a country in which many people watch Football through SVG-enabled phones, or maybe pick the seat for their flights on SVG-enabled websites. Nueremberg does even have its own SVG Logo that can be seen here!

On this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops, a technical exhibition, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group.

SVG Open 2008 is organised by examotion in affiliation with W3C.

Excited to contribute and participate? Click here for more details ...

The above is all copied shamelessly of the SVG Open website

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