From: Arndt Roger Schneider <arndt.roger@...>
Date: 2010-05-29T18:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic SVG with Ruby/Tk

Yotta Meter schrieb:

>Maybe I can read the file.svg, modify it, and then write it as a temp 
>file, and then import it using Jeszra?
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Yes,
but with the mentioned restrictions.
There is not one feature complete SVG 1.1 application, today.
The best coverage has sqiuggle (java, based on batik).

>I guess I'm not clear on the code generation - I just think of svg as 
>sort of a text based bitmap. I'll have to take a look at it and try it 
>out.
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SVG is vector graphics, not a bitmap, it does not create a bitmap.
When using cairo and xrender (under X11) a lot of the graphic
processing can be delegated to the GPU--which is what Microsoft is
currently doing with IE9-- in an ideal world all the SVG
 processing could be handled by a GPU.

The difference to a bitmap (raster image)
is its scalability --hence Scalable Vector Graphics.

-roger