- From: <Bella.Robinson@CMIS.CSIRO.AU>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:07:57 +1100
- To: www-svg@w3.org, svg-developers@egroups.com
CSIRO SVG Toolkit December 11th Release --------------------- CSIRO is pleased to announce the availability of a new release of the SVG Toolkit at http://www.cmis.csiro.au/svg Also, CSIRO have been contributing to the recently announced Apache Batik project, available at http://xml.apache.org/batik So, for the time being you have a choice between two Open Source SVG implementations! While we will continue to support the CSIRO SVG Toolkit, a lot of effort from a much larger group of contributors is being put into Batik, so this will likely be the last major release of the CSIRO toolkit. We will however, continue to make it available and provide support for it for some time to come. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have provided encouraging feedback and sent in bug reports and fixes. New Features/Bug Fixes - support for the November 2nd Candidate Recommendation SVG specification - updated to Xerces 1.2.2 - animateMotion element now supported - fixed problem that was causing large files to render slowly - will run as an applet again Existing Features (just in case you've forgotten!) - Styling with CSS (element and class) - SVG DOM (java interface) - CSS Units - Transformations - Interactivity through DOM events - Scripting through Javascript (Rhino engine) - Paths and Basic Shapes - Gradients (radial and linear, transforms and spread styles) - Text (with SVG fonts) - SVG Font support with the "d" attribute - Clipping - Patterns (+ transforms) - Linking - Animation - Markers and Symbols - Image embedding (JPG, PNG and SVG) - Output to multiple image formats (requires Sun's Jimi for formats other than JPG) - Viewing the source SVG in a separate window All this and more is available from: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/svg The CSIRO SVG Toolkit is free and open-source (source included in downloaded package). You need a Java2 runtime environment (developed and tested with JDK1.3). Everything else is included in the distribution, as well as many sample files. Have fun, Bella, Dean and Catherine svg@cmis.csiro.au
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