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by Andrew H. Watt (Author) "using Dynamic HTML, DHTML, or ActionScript in Flash are likely to have some appreciation of how combining design and programming thought processes yields new and..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 592 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders (29 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0735711666
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735711662
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.7 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Using a heavily illustrated, step-by-step style, Watt aims to ease designers into a more analytical, programming approach to graphics without losing the appeal of form and design. The change in mindset required of graphic designers in exploiting "visual components" is explained clearly and practically. While presenting real-world examples of design tasks (such as creating a logo, navigation bar, or a full Web page), Watt embeds sidebars, notes, and tips to convey the strict programming portion of the process. Thus making it easier for the reader to balance the formality of the SVG code with the functionality of the design. The book assumes no prior knowledge of SVG and provides the foundational information for the reader to grasp the key concepts.In addition, it contains source code for all of the SVG images and animations created in the book. This educates the readers in how SVG works and lays a foundation for their own experiments. It provides a practical "how to" introduction to SVG for the large number of graphic designers who want to explore the exciting capabilities of Scalable Vector Graphics. It also provides foundational concepts and techniques to further develop SVG design skills.

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Using a heavily illustrated, step-by-step style, Watt aims to ease designers into a more analytical, programming approach to graphics without losing the appeal of form and design. The change in mindset required of graphic designers in exploiting "visual components" is explained clearly and practically. While presenting real-world examples of design tasks (such as creating a logo, navigation bar, or a full web page), Watt embeds sidebars, notes, and tips to convey the strict programming portion of the process. This makes it easier for the reader to balance the formality of the SVG code with the functionality of the design.
The book assumes no prior knowledge of SVG and provides the foundational information for the reader to grasp the key concepts.
In addition, and importantly, it contains source code for all of the SVG images and animations created in the book. This educates the readers in how SVG works and lays a foundation for their own experiments.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for anybody interested in this new graphic technology, 24 Oct 2001
I really could have used this book a year ago, when I was first given the task of looking into the use of scalable vector graphics (SVG) in our documentation group! Andrew Watt has written a comprehensible and comprehensive guide to this exciting new technology, that will appeal to both beginners and advanced users. Starting at the beginning, he explains what SVG is about, where it comes from, and what it is intended for. He then goes on to show how to create shapes and text, how to use and apply colours and colour gradients, always with easy-to-understand code examples. Then come sections about filters, animating your graphics and how to make them interactive. The whole time, the emphasis is on how to combine these techniques to make usable and appealing web graphics. But an SVG graphic on its own is no use unless you can publish it on the web, and here Andrew does a great job of explaining how to embed SVG files within HTML and XHTML pages. The use of Cascading Style Sheets is handled well, as is the topic of how to plan graphics. After more than 12 months contact with SVG, I would consider myself a fairly advanced user, but it will take me quite some time to take in and use everything that this book contains. Newbies to the topic will certainly be able to learn quickly, and advanced users will pick up numerous tips and good ideas. One small minus point would be that the internet link to the examples is very well hidden - perhaps putting it on prominent position on the cover of the book would be a better idea. Otherwise a well thought out and well presented guide that I can recommend to anybody who wants to take a serious look at this new and exciting technology.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It does what it says on the tin, 31 Mar 2003
By Mr. Shane Porter "shaneporter66" (Manchester) - See all my reviews
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Yep - there aren't many books on the market for SVG. If you have to buy one, then I'd opt for the O'Reilly effort. If you can afford two, then buy this one as well. It is slightly easier to read than the O'Reilly book, but probably doesn't cover the subject in quite such detail.

Good all the same and well worth considering.

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2.0 out of 5 stars light-weight intro, badly executed, 27 May 2002
I was disappointed with this book. It is too long for the material it discusses. It contains too many irrelevant, supposedly funny, comments and asides. A more active editor could easily have chopped out about 10-20 % of the text, without losing any content.

It does a reasonable job of introducing the basics of SVG, and gives a number of simple examples. However, the XML code examples are not properly indented, which may seem trivial, but is simply infuriating for the reader who actually wants to understand the structure of the code.

The examples in the sections on gradients and animation are useful as an introduction and appetizer, but not for more serious work.

A number of issues for a user who wants to do some serious SVG coding are left unanswered. For instance, transforms are not discussed adequately. How does a transform affect a text item? And what are the rules for which style is used for an element; how do attributes, the 'style' attribute and CSS interact? What are the precedence rules? And numerous other similar questions, where the user has to resort to untangle the text of the orginal SVG specification.

There are no listings of parameters or other entities of SVG. Overall, the treatment is patchy. This makes the book useless as a reference.

The section on embedding SVG in HTML or XHTML is useful. The book also has a discussion about available software. Unavoidably, this is out of date, but I still found it useful.

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