Batik (software)

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Batik

Developer:	Apache Software Foundation
Latest release:	1.6 / April 11, 2005
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
License:	Apache 2.0 Licence
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. 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 is a fully conformant SVG 1.1 library, apart from the animation features.

The codebase has a preliminary "almost full" implementation of the current state of the sXBL specification, a preliminary implementation of the animation features, and some of the SVG 1.2 late October 2004 working draft (see SVG's Development history).

[edit] See also

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