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SVG.txt for Tux Paint
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Tux Paint - A simple drawing program for children.
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Copyright 2002-2007 by Bill Kendrick and others
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bill@newbreedsoftware.com
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http://www.tuxpaint.org/
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June 19, 2007 - June 19, 2007
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$Id$
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SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open standard used to describe
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two-dimensional vector graphics. It is great for diagrams and shapes,
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while PNGs are better for photographs. SVG files are a bit like instructions
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on how to make an image. This means that they can be resized without looking
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pixelated or blocky.
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Wikipedia, an online user-driven encyclopedia, has lots more info:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics
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SVGs On the Web
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Web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari and Opera have some
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SVG support. A plugin is available to see SVG images in older versions of
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Microsoft Internet Explorer ( http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ ).
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How to make SVGs
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Linux/Unix users
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A popular Open Source program used to make SVGs is Inkscape
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( http://www.inkscape.org/ ). This will most likely be packaged for
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your distribution / operating system.
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An earlier program (which Inkscape is based on) is Sodipodi
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( http://www.sodipodi.com/ ).
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Libraries which support SVG include Cairo ( http://cairographics.org/ )
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and Batik ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ ).
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Mac and Windows users
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Inkscape is available for Mac OSX and Windows. (See above.)
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Commercial software like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Microsoft Visio
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have SVG support.
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