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  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (5 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596002238
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596002237
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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SVG Essentials is a programmer's guide to Scalable Vector Graphics, the official W3C recommendation for portable, scaleable images on the Web. SVG is an XML application, and has great potential as a standard, open and powerful technique for including rich graphics and animation in Web pages. Macromedia's proprietary Flash plug-in is widely used for the same purpose, but SVG is the official solution. Complete with hundreds of code examples along with both colour and black-and-white illustrations, this title describes the SVG specification and shows how to create and manipulate SVG documents. The book uses open-source technology throughout, and readers should already be familiar with both XML and Java.

The author begins with an overview of SVG, and goes on to describe the coordinate system, the basic shapes, and how documents are structured. Chapters on paths, patterns and gradients show how to create and fill any shape, including Bezier curves. Text gets a chapter of its own, explaining how to make text follow a path or even make it read right-to-left, for international language support. Sections on clipping, masking and filters cover these more advanced graphical techniques, and an important chapter covers animation and Javascript scripting. The book goes on to show how to generate SVG from other XML data, such as MathML, used to describe mathematical symbols and equations. Finally, there is a chapter on how to serve up SVG using Java servlets.

Clearly written and logically presented, this is an excellent choice for Web developers who want to get started with SVG. --Tim Anderson

Keith Shengili-Roberts, Computer Paper June 2002
"....those who want the nitty-gritty on this emerging Web Graphics format will be hard pressed to find something better."

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent tutorial and reference, 10 Mar 2002
By CMcC (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML language for specifying object-based graphics. "SVG Essentials" provides an excellent introduction to the language as well as a wealth of reference information.

The book starts off with a simple introduction to SVG by drawing a rather simple cat. Okay, so it looks like a five-year-old's drawing, but this isn't a problem. Other texts start off with some incredible masterpiece which you would never be able to produce yourself; this one starts off with a clear, to the point, simple image which can easily be understood. The rest of the graphics are the same -- rather than attempting to dazzle the reader with eye candy, the author provides useful graphics of the kind you are likely to create yourself.

The sections on shapes and gradients are equally down to earth and useful. All examples are well selected, and are not put in purely for the drool factor. The effects section should probably be longer -- the W3C specification contains a wealth of mathematics and very little useful description.

The second half of the book covers animated SVG, converting to and from SVG and serving SVG from Apache. The code here is more in-depth and less suited for beginners, but for people familiar with the basics of dynamic content generation it should be helpful.

The book assumes that the reader is familiar with XML, although an appendix provides a very brief introduction to the language. Readers with no knowledge of SGML or XML may find another text on one of these languages useful as a companion.

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4.0 out of 5 stars SVG in practice, 17 May 2004
By Stephen Hampshire (Huddersfield, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book is great for people (like me) who've grasped the idea of SVG from an introductory chapter in a general XML book, but want to get to grips with the detail of the language.

Where it really scores is with practical examples of things you can do with SVG, particularly sripting it.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Simple introduction to SVG, 22 Jul 2002
By Alan Moran (Zürich Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This book provides a beginner's introduction to SVG and in this respect is more than adequate. For those familar with the W3C documentation (TR, notes etc.) you will find further detailed information once you have finished this book (or indeed as a worthy alternative to it).

In spite of it's claim to be an "essentials only" book my main reservation about it is that it is not presented sufficiently in the context of other XML technologies. For example, one significant feature of SVG is its interoperability with XSL (e.g. embedding images in PDF documents using XSL-FO etc.). Such examples are simple to demonstrate and make more apparent why SVG should be of interest to developers rather than present it as yet another image generation technology.

The author has missed several good opportunities here that I hope will be addressed in a future edition of the book!

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good primer
While this is a very good as an introduction, it is not very thorough, particularly with more advanced topics such as animation and scripting where browsers are still a minefield... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Chuckster

4.0 out of 5 stars More than enough to get me started.
I'd tried, and failed, to get into SVG from the rec.
This book was more than enough. I worked through the first
few chapters, quickly getting the hang of it, and now... Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2002 by DavePawson

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