SVG Open 2009, the 7th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics,
titled "SVG coming of age", will be held at the Google Crittenden Campus in
Mountain View, California on October 2-4 2009, with additional workshops on
October 5. Hosted by Google, sponsored by Opera, and supported by
the Open Ajax Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for SVG designers,
developers, and implementors to share ideas, experiences, products, and strategies.
Over 60 presentations will be delivered from SVG experts all over the world,
KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.0, 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.
What's new:
Improve Image Insert to allow embedding SVG vector
KDE4 is loaded with SVG, and with the release of K Office 2.0 more advantages start showing up:
... any KOffice application can handle any shape. For instance, KWord can embed bitmap graphics, Krita can embed vector graphics and Karbon can embed charts. This flexibility does not only give KOffice unprecedented integration, but also allows new applications to be created very easily. Such applications can e.g. target special user groups like kids or certain professions...
As part of the discussion about server push for never-ending documents Félix Hauri published a nice example visualizing realtime data from a Photovoltaik system located in Bex, Valais, Switzerland. If you access the site from other parts of the world, bear in mind that the system is located in Switzerland, so, it could display 0 W when the sun is down in Switzerland.
Red Hat publishes a study on worldwide open source activity and growth. Parts of the study is an interactive map indicating the level of involvement of an individual country with the open source movement. The map is implemented with OpenLayers and SVG. You may click on a country to display ranking information, split up into government, industry and community involvement.
Altsoft s.r.o. has released Xml2PDF 2009 with complete HTML and DOC support, improved SVG and DocX support, digital signatures in PDF and XPS, and many other improvements.
Xml2PDF engine is one of the best solutions for converting SVG to PDF files. Our formatting engine supports almost all SVG options describing two-dimensional graphics, images and text! Using Xml2PDF Server (.NET API) one can easily teach his .NET application to create PDF, XPS, PS and TIFF from any SVG file.
svg to pdf
One of the most challenging problems in today's web development is the creation of rounded corners around certain page elements. With CSS 3 it is as easy as writing one line:
border-radius: 10px;
But unfortunately, the number of people actually seing rendered rounded corners is quite small. So it is no wonder, that there are dozens of different recipes and wannabe-memes that promise to solve this conflict elegantly. While the only elegant way is the above mentioned CSS 3 statement, I want to introduce yet another way today to create a box with rounded corners in all major browsers.
AmanithVG v.4 introduces a new vector graphic OpenVG 1.1 and 1.0.1 engine with pure software rendering (AmanithVG SRE) to complete its OpenGL / OpenGL ES 1.x+ CM accelerated engine (now AmanithVG GLE). Evaluation builds of both engines are available for download on the AmanithVG website.
Mappetizer is a tool that gives you the opportunity to convert spatial data into the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format. You can then use these SVG files to publish them on the Web or on CD-ROM.
To create your maps you do not need any GIS software.
Mappetizer offers many features to create interactive maps of high quality, like identifying features, viewing the attribute table, map-tips, hyperlinks, turn on and off layers, measurement tools, and many others.
Additional information about Mappetizer and the possibility to download an
evaluation version are available under http://www.mappetizer.de
This is just a draft kick-off version.
In the mean time comments are very welcome, so i can improve it myself (haven't figured out markup on this blog either).
I have seen many, many different reasons for an SVG file not to result in an image.
Some happen often, some rarely. Let's try to make a rather complete list: