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Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) is a language for 2D graphics. Graphic shapes, images and text can be grouped, styled, transformed and
composited into previously rendered objects. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths,
alpha masks, filter effects and template objects.
SVG drawings can be interactive and dynamic. Animations can be defined and triggered by
embedding SVG animation elements in SVG content. SVG graphics can be transformed into virtually
any other graphics format. Inkscape has buit in export to rastergraphics as well
as some vector graphics forms like
Povray,
PostScript or
LaTeX pictures.
Note that if you want to serve SVG from your webserver,
you have to add
AddType image/svg+xml .svg
into your http.conf file. SVG files on your homedirectory which
are served from our webserver on Abel are handeled properly.
Embedding SVG files in HTML
Embedding svg directly might only work in recent browsers like Firefox 1.5 or
later versions of IE and Opera. See the source code of this file to see how
it is implemented:
