Batik

Screenshot  Batik running Solitaire Sample
Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	1.7 / 2008-01-10; 23 months ago
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik

Batik is a pure-Java library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics. SVG is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics. The project was supported by IBM and then code donated to 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 Graphics file formats, such as PNG, JPEG and TIFF,
• transcode Windows Metafiles 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.

[edit] Status

Batik was long the most conformant existing SVG 1.1 implementation^[1][2][3] and is currently just a small fraction behind Opera.

The latest 1.7 version [1], made available on January 10, 2008, has an "almost full" implementation of the current state of the sXBL specification, a nearly complete implementation of SVG declarative animation SMIL features, and some of the SVG 1.2 late October 2004 working draft (see SVG's Development history).

[edit] See also

Free software portal

• Scalable Vector Graphics
• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
• sXBL : a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace other than SVG's
• Comparison of layout engines (SVG)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Apache Batik Project
• Current status of Batik's sXBL implementation
• The official SVG page at W3C, SVG Working Group