Re: Using Batik for basic SVG generation

Hi,
this list is still alive, but with small activity.
you should wait a bit to get answer, some batik gurus seem to be on holidays :°/

2012/7/23 Anthony Rowlands <[email protected]>:
> Is this list active at all??
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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Anthony Rowlands <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I am evaluating Batik for my work. My main requirement is to generate SVG
>> documents in Java, which will mostly be used by JavaScript for display or
>> simply streamed somewhere else. So I am interested in generating SVG
>> documents as strings and have no interest in Swing or working with Java
>> Graphics. I also need the rasterizer packages for creating images out of the
>> SVG, which I have experimented with and am impressed with so far.
>>
>> So what would be the recommended way of doing this? The main feature of
>> Batik seems to be a mapping between Java's Graphics API and an SVG document,
>> so that you can code using Java's built-in API's and have an SVG document
>> come out of it.
>>
>> Question 1: If I don't need any of the features of AWT/Swing/Graphics
>> etc., would it make more sense to build the SVG myself using only Java's XML
>> API's and only use the rasterizer from Batik? This seems to be the best
>> route right now to avoid the overhead of programming to the SVGGraphics2D
>> API.
>>
>> Question 2: If I do this, and I have a huge SVG document as a String, is
>> there an entry point back into SVGGraphics2D so that, if I eventually want
>> to use the SVGGraphics2D features, I can start from an existing SVG
>> document? I'm assuming there is such an entry point, but what happens if I
>> then stream the document back out of SVGGraphics2D? I assume Batik will
>> re-jigger the document in some way - can you comment on what will happen?
>>
>> Any advice is appreciated!
>> Anthony
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pascal