Batik is a pure-

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library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics (SVG is an

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markup language for describing two-dimensional

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). IBM supported the project and then donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation, where other companies and teams decided to join efforts. Batik provides a set of core modules that provide functionality to: * Render and dynamically modify SVG content, * Transcode SVG content to some raster

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s, such as PNG, JPEG and

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, * Transcode

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s to SVG (WMF or Windows Metafile Format is the vector format used by Microsoft Windows applications), * And manage scripting and user events on SVG documents. The Batik distribution also contains a ready-to-use SVG browser (called Squiggle) making use of the above modules. The name of the library comes from the Batik painting technique.

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Batik was long the most conformant existin
SVG 1.1
implementation and is just a small fraction behind

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. Version 1.7, made available on January 10, 2008, had an "almost full" implementation of the current state of the

sXBL sXBL (SVG's XML Binding Language) is a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace other than SVG's (an XML language supporting vector graphics, user events and scripted behavior). sXBL is ...

specification,Batik 1.7 Readme
a nearly complete implementation of SV

SMIL features, and some of th
SVG 1.2
late October 2004 working draft (see SVG's Development history).

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External links

Apache Batik ProjectCurrent status of Batik's sXBL implementationThe official SVG page at W3C
SVG Working Group {{SVG Plugins

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