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Ikivo has introduced an OpenVG based version of its accelerated SVG software that'll run on AMD's Imageon media processor

Here are some usefull resources for Turkish webmasters and designers for SVG.

• http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
• http://tr.opensuse.org/SVG
• http://www.godoro.com/Divisions/Ehil/Mecmua/Magazines/Articles/txt/html/article_SVG.html

Good luck for all. Best regards.

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the release of Apache Batik version 1.7, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.

I've long been interested in SVG, and have been thinking that it would make a good target runtime platform for OpenLaszlo applications so I decided to see how difficult it would be to port the DHTML kernel (which is still under development) to SVG. With native browser support going strong, it seemed perfectly achievable.

In about two days of hacking I got a large part of the Sprite API ported to SVG. Here is a simple demo of the SVG kernel running:

• http://www.beartronics.com/svg/svg.html (SVG version)
• http://www.beartronics.com/svg/sprite.lzx (LZX source)
• http://www.beartronics.com/svg/sprite.lzx.swf (Flash version)

If time permits, I will try to clean up the code for my SVG kernel enough to release it, please contact me through comments here if you are interested. There are remaining bugs but it is overall good.

W3C has announced Last Call on SVG Print 1.2, which is in two parts:

• SVG Print 1.2, Part 1: Primer
• SVG Print 1.2, Part 2: Language

Feedback should be sent to public-svg-print@w3.org (public archive) by 8 February 2008.

SVG Map consortium released SVG Map Toolkit 0.3.0 that aims to become a standard Web Map platform. It is also high-performance SVG Viewer for Internet Explorer that enhances the SVG 1.1 Tiny specification.

SVG Map Toolkit can be downloaded from the following link.
http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/12/svg_map_toolkit.html

Moreover, the world SVG map based on VMAP can be browsed from the following link by using SVG Map Toolkit.
http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/11/tiny_svg_base_m.html

This map is scrollable and zoomable. And, In a part of region in Japan, 1:25000 scale map that Geographical Survey Institute of Japan is publishing will be able to be browsed by zooming up.

Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0 just released, Now by popular request we are going to develop SVG animation plugins module for the Sketsa. We are stuck at how the UI will flow, do you like the way Adobe Flash Editor, Jasc Webdraw, or you prefer new ways for doing animation editor, etc ?

Please see this blog entry http://blogs.kiyut.com/tonny/2007/12/06/svg-animation-editor-feedback/

If possible, please copy or post the reply to that blogs entry as well, so we could easily look all the feedback in one location :)

Any feedback is very appreciated and help us a lot in developing this animation editor.

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. The visual design tools allows designer to select, draw, and edit objects easily, while the integrated DOM Editor and SVG source editor allows them to hand edit SVG source code for greater control.

A web based graphics application using SVG and Javascript. It is supported by all mozilla based browsers and Opera. Demo of the application is at customi.se and at svg application

Application has the following features: 1) Desktop behaviour, use of arrow keys to move the objects, delete the object.
2) Freehand drawing tool
3) Import the image in drawing in PNG format
4) Edit the properties of the objects viz; width, height, stroke, font size, font-color.

For application source code of the application, email me at amaltas [at] amaltas.org

Opera Software today released a new build of Opera 9.50 (Windows only for the moment, video support is being ported to other OS) which includes support for the SVG Tiny 1.2 video element. The Ogg Theora video format is supported (as used, for example, by Wikipedia, or Dell).

An article at Opera Labs describes this new build and includes links to three SVG demos which, interestingly, combine SVGT 1.2 video with SVGF 1.1 features like filters, masks, and clipping:

• video plus a clipping region
• video plus use, mask, gradient
• video plus filter effects

(you will need an SVGT 1.2-enabled browser or viewer, naturally. So download Opera first).

And remember to view source because, with SVG, you can do that and see how it works...

Ubuntu Heron is "likely to see a complete visual refresh," including a whole new icon theme that'll use more SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and bring things more in line with the Tango icons used by GNOME.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/02/ubuntu-dev-summit-reveals-plans-for-upcoming-hardy-heron-relea/

There are a lot of designers and programmers in Russia who use flash and who want to learn some new technologies for vector graphics.
Some russian resources:
Manuals:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
http://xml.nsu.ru/extra/svgintro_0.xml
http://xmlhack.ru/topics/svg/index.html

And Articles:
http://jre.cplire.ru/koi/oct01/5/text.html
http://viju.tvercity.net/articles/svgformat
http://webmascon.com/topics/technologies/7a.asp
http://docs.gimp.org/ru/ch04s03s04.html

Safari 3 final has shipped as part of Mac OS X Leopard with an identical SVG feature set to the Safari 3 Beta. It's great to see yet another browser shipping with native SVG support. Those tracking Apple's progress know that recent WebKit nighty builds already demonstrate much more advanced SVG support than that shipping with Safari 3.

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