Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

SVG Mobile in Japanese

広瀬行夫 (Yukio Hirose) has published a translation of the SVG Mobile specification in Japanese: Mobile SVG プロファイル：SVG Tiny と SVG Basic. To facilitate comparison with the normative English text, the Japanese and English versions of each paragraph or section are displayed together.

Posted on: 20 June 2004 | 7:00 pm

Going Mobile with SVG

XML.com publishes Going Mobile With SVG: Standards by Antoine Quint.

Posted on: 16 June 2004 | 7:00 pm

MapViewSVG 3.3 is now available for ESRI ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS 9.x

MapView announced a new version of their SVG export product for the ESRI GIS products ArcView and ArcGIS. An evaluation version is available for download.

Posted on: 15 June 2004 | 7:00 pm

Square One supports AutoCAD DXF to SVG conversion

Square One announced that its pdf2vector conversion software, which alreads allows PDF, PS, EMF and CGM export to SVG, now supports AutoCAD’s DXF file format as well.

Posted on: 14 June 2004 | 7:00 pm

Nokia announce SVG in Series 60

Nokia have released the second edition of their Series 60 platform and it supports SVG. Read more in Antoine Quint's weblog.

Posted on: 13 June 2004 | 7:00 pm

DocSoft CGM-to-SVG Beta Test

DocSoft announced a public beta of their CGM v4 to SVG converter. The main focus is WebCGM to SVG 1.1 conversion. The software runs in a .NET environment.

Posted on: 2 June 2004 | 7:00 pm

BikeCAD Pro exports SVG

BikeCAD Pro, a Java-based CAD program specific to bicycle frame design, now exports SVG. It integrates the Batik toolkit to enable SVG generation.

Posted on: 13 May 2004 | 7:00 pm

BeatWare Mobile Designer is released

Beatware Mobile Designer, an SVG authoring tool specifically aimed at animated, mobile SVG Tiny content creation, is released. It allows editing of other SVG ptofiles, but has automated checking to ensure that only valid SVG Tiny content is exported. A trial download is available.

Posted on: 13 May 2004 | 7:00 pm

Sony Ericsson K700 supports SVG using ZOOMON

The newly released K700 mobile phone from Sony Ericsson supports SVG thanks to the ZOOMON SVG Player. The K700 will be available world wide and is a consumer level handset. Read more in the ZOOMON Press Release.

Posted on: 18 April 2004 | 7:00 pm

PdfTron Systems adds Linux support to PDF2SVG

PDF2SVG 1.6 is now available on Linux as well as Windows. It converts PDF to SVG; both GUI and command line converters are available.

Posted on: 5 April 2004 | 7:00 pm

SVG seen as key to Mozilla

Brendan Eich, Chief Architect for Mozilla and inventor of JavaScript, listed "Accelerate and optimize the SVG effort" as a key requirement in his Mozilla Futures dev-day slides. He also mentioned hardware accelleration on Quartz, OpenGL, and GDI+.

Posted on: 29 February 2004 | 6:00 pm

Siemens CX65 phone ships with SVG Tiny

Zoomon announced that the Siemens CX65 phone ships as standard with their SVG Tiny viewer. The triband GSM, GPRS phone is available in the European, Asia-Pacific, and Latin American markets. (more details)

Posted on: 28 February 2004 | 6:00 pm

Access ships NetFront SVG Viewer

Access is shipping their NetFront Mobile Client Suite, a multimedia-enabled application stack for handset manufacturers that runs on Linux and other embedded operating systems. The suite features an XHTML Web browser, multimedia messaging (MMS) client, personal information manager (PIM), SyncML client, SMIL player, Tiny-compliant SVG Viewer and Java MIDP support. Further information (in Japanese). SVG（※2）ビューアーはW3Cの提唱するSVG Tinyに準拠しています。SVGコンテンツを多種多様な端末の画面サイズに最適化したり、単一画面上で拡大縮小表示したりすることができます。SVG ビューアーはNetFront ブラウザとXMLエンジンのリソースを共有可能です。

Posted on: 24 February 2004 | 6:00 pm

Offisor 2.0 adds SVG support

Davisor Offisor, an MS-Word and legacy HTML to XML converter, has been updated to add SVG and PNG support.

Posted on: 23 February 2004 | 6:00 pm

Sketsa 1.7 released

Sketsa is a vector based drawing application which uses SVG as the native file format and has visual, DOM, and source views. Version 1.7 improves the property editor and toolbox. Sketsa runs on any Java 1.4.1 or higher platform.

Posted on: 22 February 2004 | 6:00 pm

W3C at 3GSM

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is present at the 3GSM 2004 Congress, from 23 to 26 February 2004, in Cannes, France. Over 25,000 visitors will have the opportunity to learn about W3C's efforts in Multimodal Interaction, Voice Browsing, Device Independence, and Multimedia Messaging. The program gives an overview of W3C work on Mobile devices.