Batik is a pure Java library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics for SVG (SVG is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional Vector graphics). Batik provides a set of core modules allowing to : Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ... Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ... Example showing effect of vector graphics on scale: (a) original vector-based illustration; (b) illustration magnified 8x as a vector image; (c) illustration magnified 8x as a bitmap image. ...

• render and dynamically modify SVG content. Batik distribution even contain a ready-to-use SVG browser making use of the library
• transcode SVG content to some binary Graphics file formats, such as PNG, Jpeg, or Tiff
• transcode Windows Metafiles to SVG (WMF or Windows Metafile Format is the vector format used on Microsoft Windows applications)
• manage scripting and user events on the SVG document

The name of the library comes from the Batik painting technique. See also Category:Graphics file formats Here is a summary of the most common graphics file formats: Some file formats, e. ... For other uses, see PNG (disambiguation). ... In computing, JPEG (pronounced jay-peg) is a commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images. ... This article is about TIFF, the computer image format. ... Windows Metafile (WMF) is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the early 1990s and not commonly used after the rise of the Internet and the widely used graphics formats such as GIF and JPEG. It is a vector graphics format which also allows the inclusion... Microsoft Windows is a series of proprietary operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ... A batik painting depicting two Indian women. ...

Status

Batik is a fully conformant SVG 1.1 library. The codebase has a preliminary "almost full" implementation of the current state of the sXBL specification, and some of the SVG 1.2 late october 2004 working draft (see SVG's Development history) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ...

See Also

• SVG
• sXBL : a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace other than SVG's

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ...

External Links

• Apache Batik Project
• current status of Batik's sXBL implementation