Vector graphics: from PostScript and Flash to SVG

S Probets, J Mong, D Evans, D Brailsford - Proceedings of the 2001 ACM …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
S Probets, J Mong, D Evans, D Brailsford
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Document engineering, 2001dl.acm.org
The XML-based specification for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), sponsored by the World
Wide Web consortium, allows for compact and descriptive vector graphics for the Web. This
paper describes a set of three tools for creating SVG, either from first principles or via the
conversion of existing formats. The ab initio generation of SVG is effected from a server-side
CGI script, using a PERL library of drawing functions; later sections highlight the problems of
converting Adobe PostScript and Macromedia's Shockwave format (SWF) into SVG.
The XML-based specification for Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG), sponsored by the World Wide Web consortium, allows for compact and descriptive vector graphics for the Web.This paper describes a set of three tools for creating SVG, either from first principles or via the conversion of existing formats. The ab initio generation of SVG is effected from a server-side CGI script, using a PERL library of drawing functions; later sections highlight the problems of converting Adobe PostScript and Macromedia's Shockwave format (SWF) into SVG.
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