I've had a little experience with SVG files back when there were few Mac options to open and edit SVG. That is how I discovered Intaglio. Many JAVA SVG images do not look good. I'm guessing (hoping) it is the author and not the tool. > From: "H. Gluender" <h@...> > Reply-To: <futurebasic@...> > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:11:30 +0100 > To: FB Mailing List <futurebasic@...> > Subject: [FB] re: FutureBasic and Carbon > > Pierre, > > this is my last message today. > > I was wrong in stating that in Java "Of course vector graphics is > standard." Java2D uses subpixel interpolation and anti-aliasing but > is pixel graphics. > > As mentioned before,there are however (free) Java vector graphics packages. > > Besides the previously mentioned "freehep" there is (free) Batik > > <http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/using/index.html> > > Its SVG generator is said "to construct SVG documents from Java2D > drawing commands." > > SVG is a modern vector graphics format. Intaglio (v2.9.7) Help tells us: > "SVG is a standard graphics format created by W3C, the organization > that sets standards for the World Wide Web. For this reason SVG is > being adopted by several web browsers as a way to embed scalable > graphics in web sites. Because SVG is a vector graphics format it is > capable of providing graphics at whatever resolution the user needs. > Intaglio is able to export drawings as SVG files and open basic SVG > files as new drawings. This allows Intaglio to exchange graphics with > other SVG enabled graphics applications such as open source projects." > > Today many graphics programs are able to open and edit SVG grtaphic files > > As mentioned in one of my first comments, I didn't use vector > graphics in my Java apps yet. There are a number of forum threads > about vector graphics and Java. Do a search and don't stop at the > first results pages... > > Best > -- > > Herbie > > ------------------------ > <http://www.gluender.de> > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >