Jmol exports POVRay, which is 3D vector graphics. I'm not sure how SVG
handles 3D (for example, lighting). Do you? I thought it was strictly a 2D
format.


On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Rzepa, Henry <[email protected]>wrote:

> The  introduction of gesture based  browsers (for example Safari on the
>  iPad)  has made me realise how valuable scaleable graphics are.  Jmol
> currently writes out  three unscaleable (or at least not without loss)
> bitmap formats (gif, jpg and png).  Might we consider adding the lossless
> vector format  SVG  to this output?
>
> I note with surprise and much gratitude that all the major browsers now
> support SVG very well indeed (even on the  iPad).  And  as an XML language,
>  SVG has the advantage of retaining (eg) atom coordinates and much else.
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