Announcing updated SVGView - 0.2a

Dear SVG users, interested parties,

We are pleased to announce that we have just posted a significantly updated
version of the IBM SVGView application to our alphaWorks web site (
http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com) for free download. The new version number is
0.2a.

SVGView is an SVG viewer written entirely in Java that exploits Java 2D and
IBM's award winning XML4J parser.

This is the second version to be posted to alphaWorks. We posted the initial
version on July-30th 1999, and since then it has been downloaded more than 800
times. We appreciate all of the nice words and suggestions we have received as
e-mails from users of the initial version.

Here is a summary of some of the key new features in this release:

SVGView now comes with over 70 fully annotated SVG sample files.

New in this release:

- Links (you can move between SVG files by mouse clicking on shapes)
- Linear gradients
- Radial Gradients
- Patterns & Textures (image patterns)
- Printing
- Selective validation.
- Support for more of the SVG syntax
- Upgraded to match the July-30th (19990730) spec and DTD
- Editable bookmarks

Other key features (present in the first release)
- Graphical tool bar
- History window (plus back and forwards support)
- Fully interactive zoom rectangle with status of zoom level

The following paragraphs have been cut/pasted  from our readme file and
summarize the current level of SVG support provided by SVGView:

Support is provided in part or in full for the following list
of features:

  Basic Shapes
    - rectangles
    - circles
    - ellipses
    - lines
    - polylines
    - polygons
  Paths
  Clipping
  Transforms
  Opacity
  Colors
  Images
  Text
  Fonts
  Patterns & textures (image patterns)
  Linear gradients
  Radial gradients
  Stroking
    - Line ends
    - Line joins
    - Line widths
    - Dashing
  Filling
    - even odd rule
    - non zero rule
  Text antialiasing
  Shape antialiasing
  Links


Supported SVG elements


The currently supported SVG element names (in alphabetical
order) are:

    <a>
    <circle>
    <data>
    <defs>
    <ellipse>
    <g>
    <image>
    <line>
    <linearGradient>
    <path>
    <pattern>
    <polygon>
    <polyline>
    <radialGradient>
    <rect>
    <stop>
    <style>
    <svg>
    <text>


Supported CSS style properties

The currently supported CSS style properties (in alphabetical
order) are:

    clippath
    fill
    fill-opacity
    fillrule
    font-family
    font-size
    font-style
    font-weight
    stroke
    stroke-antialiasing
    stroke-dasharray
    stroke-dashoffset
    stroke-linecap
    stroke-linejoin
    stroke-miterlimit
    stroke-opacity
    stroke-width
    text-antialiasing
    visibility



Please read the very detailed readme file (readme.txt) in the download package
for lot more information on all of the features and more.

Thanks for your time,

Kelvin Lawrence

On behalf of the IBM SVG and Enterprise Transcoding team.
Austin, Texas.

Received on Wednesday, 25 August 1999 00:55:36 UTC