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| <header> |
| <title>Batik In The News</title> |
| <subtitle>Press Release, reports etc...</subtitle> |
| <authors> |
| <person name="Vincent Hardy" email="vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com"/> |
| <person name="Roddy Young" email="roddyboston@mediaone.net"/> |
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| <s1 title="Batik 1.0 release reports and reviews"> |
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| <p><br/><strong>OREILLYNET.com</strong> |
| <link href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/06/svg_future.html">SVG On the Rise</link><br/> |
| <strong>CNET: </strong> |
| <link href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5991585.html">"Toolkit opened for graphics technology"</link><br/> |
| <strong>Java Industry Connection: </strong> |
| <link href="http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/story2/0,1072,36774,00.html">"Scalable Vector Graphics (Svg) Software Released from The Apache Software Foundation"</link><br/> |
| <strong>Apache Today: </strong> |
| <link href="http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-21-002-06-PR-CY">"Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) software released from the Apache Software Foundation"</link><br/> |
| <strong>Freshmeat.net</strong> |
| <link href="http://freshmeat.net/releases/48664/">Batik 1.0</link><br/> |
| <strong>XML Hack</strong> |
| <link href="http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1225">Batik SVG toolkit reaches 1.0</link><br/> |
| <strong>Web Techniques</strong> |
| <link href="http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/04/desi/">Scalable Vector Graphics</link><br/> |
| <strong>XML.com</strong> |
| <link href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/02/27/batik/index.html">Server Side SVG</link><br/> |
| </p> |
| </s1> |
| <s1 title="Batik 1.0 Press Releases, Monday May 21st 2001"> |
| <p><strong>CONTACT</strong><br /> |
| <em>Roderic Olvera Young</em><br /> |
| <em>Camelot Media</em><br /> |
| <em>+1.617.877.1043</em><br /> |
| <em>roddyboston@mediaone.net</em><br /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <strong>SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS (SVG) SOFTWARE RELEASED FROM THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION</strong><br/> |
| <em>Apache XML's Batik Project Delivers High Quality Static SVG Toolkit</em><br /> |
| <link href="http://www.apache.org/batik/">http://www.apache.org/batik/</link> <em>- The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) </em></p> |
| |
| <p>XML Project's Batik Team today announced the release of Batik 1.0, a |
| sophisticated open source, Java-based toolkit for SVG (scalable vector graphics). </p> |
| |
| <p>SVG is an XML syntax for rich 2D graphics and Batik allows developers |
| to view, generate and manipulate SVG images with unprecedented |
| precision, detail and functionality. Since the release of the W3C candidate |
| recommendation of the SVG specification, Batik continues to set new high-water |
| marks for the implementation of this maturing specification. </p> |
| |
| <p>"In the past months the Batik team has moved quickly toward realizing |
| its goal of providing a full implementation of the W3C's SVG specification," |
| said Vincent Hardy of the Batik team. "The latest Batik release provides a |
| high quality implementation of many of the high-end SVG features. With this |
| highly modular tool, developers can cut down the cost of creating, viewing |
| and exchanging graphical content between applications or across the Internet, |
| and easily generate, manipulate or view SVG content. The contribution, |
| experience and expertise of companies and individuals has helped create a |
| team dedicated to the success of the project."</p> |
| |
| <p>By leveraging the force of XML and the visual strengths of dynamic and |
| easily accessible vector graphics, the Apache XML Project's Batik team |
| lead the drive in building an industrial-grade embeddable Web graphics |
| software solution. Batik delivers core components for three main purposes:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>generating SVG content from any Java applications, </li> |
| <li>viewing SVG content</li> |
| <li>converting SVG to and from other formats. </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>The vision is to help make SVG the central format for exchanging and viewing |
| any type of 2D graphical information while still making it easy to convert SVG |
| images to other formats, for environments that do not yet support SVG natively.</p> |
| |
| <p>SVG combines two of computer graphic's great practices, vector graphics and |
| raster graphics, in a resolution independent framework, enabling SVG images |
| to be rendered with high quality on any screen or printer. The SVG framework |
| also includes many sophisticated graphics features such as gradient paints, |
| filter effects, and sophisticated text support. This unique combination of |
| graphical features in one standard format makes it ideal for describing any |
| rich image content, from CAD diagrams to postcards to Grandma. Furthermore, |
| by using an XML syntax, SVG is extremely easy to generate, search, transform |
| and manipulate. Unlike other formats, SVG becomes a powerful tool for anybody |
| managing image content for the Web or other environments.</p> |
| |
| <p>New features in Batik 1.0 release:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>filter effects such as drop shadows and lighting effects</li> |
| <li>internal and external use - allows developers to create |
| highly structured SVG images where common components are |
| easily reused.</li> |
| <li>masking and clipping.</li> |
| <li>markers</li> |
| <li>linking - the ability to define SVG graphical |
| elements as 'links' (similar to HTML hyperlinks) which |
| can point to other graphical elements in an SVG image |
| (for example allowing you to zoom in a portion of a map) |
| either in the same SVG image, in another SVG image or |
| in another document (such as an HTML page).</li> |
| <li>sophisticated text support - Batik now supports control over |
| complex text layout (such as individual glyph advance).</li> |
| <li> Run-time extensibilty - Much of Batik can now be extended at |
| run-time, providing among other things new graphics |
| primitives, and support for new image file formats.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>With this release, Batik provides extensive support of most static |
| SVG features and includes:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Improved SVG generator - allows all applications to easily export |
| their graphics in the SVG format. This generator has been extended |
| and made more flexible.</li> |
| |
| <li>Improved packaging of the Batik modules - making them easier to |
| integrate into applications. For example, developers |
| can plug in the Batik's viewing component to add SVG viewing |
| capability into their applications without having to know |
| anything about SVG.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Batik delivers a number of sample applications that leverage its core |
| modules, such as an SVG browser. Screenshots of that browser can |
| be seen at: <link href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/svgviewer.html">http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/svgviewer.html</link></p> |
| |
| <p>In the near future, the Batik team aims to provide developers worldwide |
| support for full dynamic behavior, including scripting and SMIL |
| (synchronized multimedia integration language) for animations.</p> |
| |
| <p>"Our relationship with the Apache Software Foundation allows Sun |
| engineers to develop technology implementations in a collaborative |
| environment and better enables Sun to deliver robust products based |
| on open standards. The Batik project demonstrates the synergy between |
| the Java platform's portable code and XML's portable data. We are |
| proud to have worked in cooperation with Kodak and ILOG on this |
| remarkable toolkit for SVG-based graphics."<br /> |
| <em>-- Jon Bosak, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems</em></p> |
| |
| <p>"Kodak congratulates the Apache Software Foundation and the Batik |
| project on the 1.0 release of the SVG toolkit. Batik will significantly |
| advance SVG as an important element for enabling both graphical and |
| image-intensive creative Web-based applications. Because of its open |
| source nature, ISV's will be able to leverage the powerful and extensible |
| framework it provides to develop new classes of creative applications |
| and to deploy SVG in environments not previously possible. Such applications |
| and systems could prove fundamental to delivering new products and |
| services through our Internet photofinishing services."<br /> |
| <em>-- Daryl Hunt, Director of Strategic Standards, Eastman Kodak Company</em></p> |
| |
| <p>"The goal of the Batik project complements ILOG's goal of creating and |
| delivering the richer, more compelling online experience that Web content |
| providers and users want, and we congratulate the Apache Foundation and |
| the Batik team for this important milestone. A supporter of SVG since its |
| inception, ILOG will continue its commitment to the standard in our roles |
| as a W3C working group member, Batik technical |
| committee member, and with real products, such as ILOG JViews, one of the |
| first SVG products on the market."<br /> |
| <em>-- Jean-François Abramatic, Senior Vice President of ILOG Research and Development.</em></p> |
| |
| <p>The Batik project's name comes from the famous and highly developed art |
| traditions of the Indonesian island of Java. The Apache XML team seeks |
| to honor and capture Java's rich history of creating geometric patterned |
| and colorfully designed textiles through Batik's high quality graphical |
| representation capabilities.</p> |
| |
| <p>The Batik Project encourages participation through its mailing list: |
| <link href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/mail.html">http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/mail.html</link></p> |
| |
| <p>For more information about the Batik project please see |
| <link href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/">http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/</link></p> |
| |
| <p><em>ABOUT THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION</em><br /><br /> |
| |
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| please see <link href="http://www.apache.org/">http://www.apache.org/</link>. |
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