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Software News   Software News : Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype
   posted by ssolie on 13-Dec-2006 16:36:27 (5026 reads)
Fredrik Wikstrom has managed to put together an SVG datatype for OS4.

Grab it from OS4 Depot.


Installation:

1. Copy svg.datatype to SYS:Classes/DataTypes/.
2. Copy SVG to DEVS:DataTypes/.

SDK users can just use "make install".

The OS4 native expat.library is needed in order for the datatype to work (it is not enough to just use a .l.main glue file!). This library can be found as part of the expat-ppc archive on OS4Depot.

Compiling:

"make".

Bugs:

None known.
    

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Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype
Posted on 13-Dec-2006 16:57:26
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Rulez! Shame about the black bg in multiview though!
Good work as usual Fredrik!


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What kind of graphics is this DT suitable for?

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Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype
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SVG files are vector based files. If you grab the AntiGrain package from OS4 Depot, there's a SVG file in there called Tiger.svg that you should be able to test out.

Cheers for this ssolie. I'm not at my Amiga right now but does yout DT have a scaling feature? And are the images anti-aliased?

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Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype
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SVG files can be used in many-many applications. Among others, they are kind-of enabling interactive animations on the web (given that you have an SVG capable browser). For example, we are using them in the web-GIS application we are developing.
The user can put the mouse over a building block and it changes color. By clicking on that block, its linetype changes and the svg viewer of the browser sends request to the web server and so on.
In the coming years, this format will become somewhat of a de-facto for animations on the web, as XML (which SVG is similar to) has become de-facto for on-line transactions.

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Hmm. I think I need to look at this...


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@FuZion
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Cheers for this ssolie....

Not my doing. I just reported the news.


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Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype
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@FuZion
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SVG files are vector based files. If you grab the AntiGrain package from OS4 Depot, there's a SVG file in there called Tiger.svg that you should be able to test out.

As FuZion so rightly pointed out, available here: http://os4depot.net/share/development/library/agg2sdk.lha

:edit
The SVG file doesn't exist in this archive, got the wrong one! Scroll down a bit for the proper one.

Last edited by amipal on 14-Dec-2006 at 05:00 PM.


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@amipal

Don't be so terse!

I clicked your provided link for us. Download the thing. Stuck it in my :apps, all 4 megs. THEN I looked for ANY thing with tiger OR svg. Not one sticking files in all 840 that I have here.

So trudged back and read the fine print you posted. Though the seeming point was to try out svg and the posts talked about Tiger, YOU weren't talking about /that/.

Dang it [to no one in particular]. There are *3* AntiGrain files over there (none of them with AntiGrain in the filespec mind you). I guess I chose the wrong one. No svg files in there. Bah. I'm going to bed.

ggw

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@ggw

No biggie, the file is in the demos archive: http://www.os4depot.net/share/graphics/misc/agg2demos.lha.

Amipal was pointing out the sdk package if anyone fancies making a few apps with it

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There are some SVG files here: http://people.opera.com/nicolasm/svg


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Don't be so terse!

Oops, see what happens when I jump to conclusions! Sorry!


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Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype
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I'm in a better mood this evening. I downloaded the 8Megs of AGG. Very pretty graphics demos. I finally got to the bottom for the tiger.svg. Double clicked. Multivew reports: unknown data type for tiger.svg [Continue]

6> list OS4:Classes/DataTypes/svg.datatype
Directory "OS4:Classes/DataTypes" on Thursday 14-Dec-06
svg.datatype 1778549 ----rwed Tuesday 20:34:14


6> list Devs:DataTypes/svg
Directory "Devs:DataTypes" on Thursday 14-Dec-06
svg 112 ----rwed Tuesday 20:21:42

So what am I doing wrong?

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@ggw

Works OK here (tried with the same file).

Sounds like a problem with the descriptor file.

You did copy the file "SVG" to Devs/Datatypes/? Did you copy the icon also? After this you either need to do a reboot or doubleclick the descriptor file for it to be added to the system.

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@Fuzion

Quote:
I'm not at my Amiga right now but does yout DT have a scaling feature?


IIRC the OS4 picture.datatype supports scaling by itself. This is only bitmap scaling though, so results may not be so good. I have thought about overriding the method with a proper vector scale assuming this is possible with libsvg-cairo, but before that I'd like to fix some of the other problems.

Quote:
And are the images anti-aliased?


Yes, they are. Thanks to libcairo, I think.

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...as XML (which SVG is similar to)...


That I think is quite an understatement considering it's not just "similar" to xml. It is in fact based on xml, much like ILBM, 8SVX, ANIM, SMUS, AIFF, etc. are all "similar" to IFF (all are IFF based formats, IFF being just a "wrapper" format much like xml is).

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