Is this list active at all?? On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Anthony Rowlands <draftoma...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 >
