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| <document> |
| <header> |
| <title>Batik - Glossary</title> |
| <subtitle>Batik and SVG Glossary</subtitle> |
| <authors> |
| <person name="Vincent Hardy" email="vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com"/> |
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| <body> |
| <anchor id="GVT" /> |
| <s1 title="GVT, Graphic Vector Toolkit"> |
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| <p> |
| GVT (Graphic Vector Toolkit) is an object oriented framework that |
| describes complex 2D graphics in terms of a tree of Java objects. GVT |
| is used in Batik to represent how SVG images are to be rendered. |
| </p> |
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| </s1> |
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| <anchor id="SVGDOM" /> |
| <s1 title="SVG DOM"> |
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| <p> |
| The SVG DOM (Document Object Model) defines the API that programming |
| languages use to interact with SVG documents. There are different 'bindings' |
| of the DOM API for different languages. For example, there is an ECMAScript |
| binding which allows SVG scripts to access or modify SVG documents, for example |
| in reaction to events. There is also a Java technology binding which allows |
| Java programs to dynamically interact with SVG documents. The Java binding |
| and the ECMA Script binding are both available in Batik. |
| </p> |
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| </s1> |
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| <anchor id="SVGGenerator" /> |
| <s1 title="SVG Generator"> |
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| <p> |
| The SVG Generator is a module of Batik that allows Java applications |
| to create SVG content without needing specific knowledge of SVG. Applications |
| doing graphics in Java use an API, embodied by the Graphics2D class, to |
| do all their rendering operations. They use the same code, but different |
| implementations of that API, to render to various outputs such as a screen |
| or a printer. The SVG Generator is another implementation of that API that |
| instead of drawing to a screen or a printer generates SVG content. Because |
| it implements the same API as for printing or drawing to the screen, the |
| same code that does screen rendering and printing can be used with the |
| generator to generate SVG content. For an example of how to use this |
| module, follow this <link href="svggen.html">link</link> |
| </p> |
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| </s1> |
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| <anchor id="SVGParser" /> |
| <s1 title="SVG Parser"> |
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| <p> |
| The SVG Parser module contains 'micro parsers' specific to SVG to convert SVG specific attributes, |
| such as path data, transforms or color values into equivalent Java |
| objects such as java.awt.geom.GeneralPath, java.awt.geom.AffineTransform |
| or java.awt.Color. |
| </p> |
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| </s1> |
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