Councils Set Details of ROTC Forum
Each of the two upcoming forums on the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps will include six panelists, equally split between supporters and opponents of NROTC’s return to campus, student leaders decided in an open meeting Friday night.
Two dozen students representing almost as many campus groups met in Earl Hall to finalize the layout of the […]
Free Learn SVG E-Book: English and French
The English and French editions of the LearnSVG.com ebook is now available for free and can be downloaded here: Learn SVG.
Inkscape announces 0.46 release (adds PDF editing and more)
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest
version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a
major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of
PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to
editing PDF documents.
Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this
release. Dialogs now […]
Blazonry to SVG Converter
New to all this, but you folks may be interested.
I’ve made a server that converts Blazonry (the jargon for describing coats of arms) into SVG. The SVG I produce, near as I can tell, is mostly valid, though no web browser seems to be able to handle it well, and of libraries only rsvglib works […]
How to do photoshop-like effects in SVG
For a tutorial on how to do photoshop-like effects in SVG head on over to dev.opera.com for an in-depth article on the subject.
This site also hosts a number of SVG-related articles that show you how to use SVG in modern web browsers.
SVG Open 2008 abstract submission forms available
The SVG Open 2008 abstract submission forms are available. SVG Open is the worldwide SVG developers conference targeting SVG content developers and users, tool makers and people interested in advancing the SVG and related W3C specifications.
Please submit your abstracts at http://www.svgopen.org/ → Registration.
Looking forward to receiving many interesting abstracts!
Firefox 3 T-Shirt Contest
Firefox 3 T-Shirt Contest: send in your SVG before Sunday March 16th 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST). Good luck
Integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit (feb.24th)
Next weekend FOSDEM (the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) takes place again in Brussels.For the price of a voluntary donation you can meet loads of interesting people and see loads of interesting presentations.“Integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit” by Alp Stoker for example:”WebKit/GTK+ is a brand new port of the WebKit […]
The Grammys and Crippled Chicken Farming While Reading Sunday’s NY Times…Livin’ in the Future and None of This Has Happened Yet….
I know, I know…where’s she been? I don’t know, I say, as I look through the unfinished drafts of the past couple of lousy weeks of school meetings and a sick, paralyzed chicken…. and just feeling overwhelmed by the political climate and the climate of my life which seem to meld like the mud and […]
Can we please stop talking now about how we "liberated" Iraq?
File this one away under “Stories I Meant To Blog On Earlier”:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
The women are killed, police say, because […]
Sociopathic inhuman motherfucker
And yes, I’m talking about the current occupant of the White House. God, I can’t WAIT for him to leave. And please, America, can we PLEASE never again let anyone like this even come close enough to steal an election:
While visiting tornado-ravaged Tennessee, President Bush stopped in to speak to residents affected.
We’re sorry […]
And here I thought Shuster was smarter than this
Amidst all my attempts to insist that there are no generational differences between me and my younger progressive sisters, I’m often made aware that there are. I don’t refer to the time in college when I was held down on a bed in a guy’s room and told that either I have sex with […]
Comtech Global Careers
Are you having a hard time finding an Information Technology position in the United States? You know the jobs are out there, because you’ve seen rows and rows of H-1B and L-1 visa holders/IT professionals working diligently as you walk through major operational centers.
As part of my ongoing research I sometimes find some of those […]
Comment moderation on
Because of a rather nasty “food fight” going on in one of my posts, I have for the time being turned comment moderation on. As soon as things calm down, I’ll open things back up again. For now, please bear with me as I’ll be moderating all comments. Thanks for your patience.
Corporate jackboots in the night
Holy shit:
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the […]
The Grammys and Crippled Chicken Farming While Reading Sunday’s NY Times…Livin’ in the Future and None of This Has Happened Yet….
I know, I know…where’s she been? I don’t know, I say, as I look through the unfinished drafts of the past couple of lousy weeks of school meetings and a sick, paralyzed chicken…. and just feeling overwhelmed by the political climate and the climate of my life which seem to meld like the mud and […]
Can we please stop talking now about how we "liberated" Iraq?
File this one away under “Stories I Meant To Blog On Earlier”:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
The women are killed, police say, because […]
Sociopathic inhuman motherfucker
And yes, I’m talking about the current occupant of the White House. God, I can’t WAIT for him to leave. And please, America, can we PLEASE never again let anyone like this even come close enough to steal an election:
While visiting tornado-ravaged Tennessee, President Bush stopped in to speak to residents affected.
We’re sorry […]
And here I thought Shuster was smarter than this
Amidst all my attempts to insist that there are no generational differences between me and my younger progressive sisters, I’m often made aware that there are. I don’t refer to the time in college when I was held down on a bed in a guy’s room and told that either I have sex with […]
Comment moderation on
Because of a rather nasty “food fight” going on in one of my posts, I have for the time being turned comment moderation on. As soon as things calm down, I’ll open things back up again. For now, please bear with me as I’ll be moderating all comments. Thanks for your patience.
Corporate jackboots in the night
Holy shit:
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the […]
ALTER EGO at SA Rodeo Fri. Feb. 8
There is neither patent nor copyright on suffering
Yesterday Randi Rhodes had a caller that made me want to stick an icepick in my forehead. Given that Randi has been known to descent into screaming at far lesser offenders, her patience with this woman was inexplicable.
The woman’s premise was that because black people got the vote before women did, that a woman […]
What ModFab Said.
He doesn’t write about politics much (perhaps that’s why he’s more cheerful than I am), but when he does, he nails it:
Over at Modern Fabulousity Unlimited, I linked to an article today quoting the White House press office, where they are now arguing the unthinkable — that waterboarding, an extreme, inhuman and brutal act of […]
Welcome to 1968
In 1968, we had a Democratic presidential candidate, the sitting vice-president to the president that had escalated the Vietnam war, running against two antiwar candidates. After Lyndon Johnson was defeated by Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire and withdrew from re-election consideration, Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared his candidacy, running against McCarthy and Robert […]
Tutorial: Installation and integration of Apache Batik on Windows
Frank Bruder posted a tutorial on how to install Apache Batik on Windows and integrate it with the Windows Explorer. After the installation, users can open and convert SVG files to PNGs or PDFs directly from the Windows Explorer by right-clicking the SVG file. Additionally, truetype fonts can be converted to SVG fonts.
Send your love (mobile) SVG hearts for Valentine
Thursday it’s Valentines day. Surprise your love with a personalized moving message at her mobile via svghearts.com and i bet you she will show it off (coders can of course easily make more adjustments, like inserting a photo).
SVG Open 2008 site on-line
6th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics
26th to 28th August
Nuremberg | Germany
The world conference on SVG, the versatile ‘HTML of graphics’ standard, this year takes place in the beautiful city center of Nuremberg. That is in the south of Germany, a country in which many people watch Football through SVG-enabled phones, or maybe pick the […]
Ikivo and AMD claim to enrich graphics on mobile phones
Ikivo has introduced an OpenVG based version of its accelerated SVG software that’ll run on AMD’s Imageon media processor
SVG resources in Turkish
Here are some usefull resources for Turkish webmasters and designers for SVG.
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
http://tr.opensuse.org/SVG
http://www.godoro.com/Divisions/Ehil/Mecmua/Magazines/Articles/txt/html/article_SVG.html
Good luck for all. Best regards.
Sketsa SVG Editor 5.1 Released
KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native […]
Batik 1.7 released
The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the release of Apache Batik version 1.7, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.
The 1.7 release fixes a number of bugs brought to light with the 1.7beta1 release, and includes a few new features:
xml:id support (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/).
ElementTraversal support (http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/).
Enhanced DOM Viewer window, contributed from Ivan Andjelkovic, a Google Summer […]
Open Laszlo Kernel and SVG
I’ve long been interested in SVG, and have been thinking that it would make a good target runtime platform for OpenLaszlo applications so I decided to see how difficult it would be to port the DHTML kernel (which is still under development) to SVG. With native browser support going strong, it seemed perfectly achievable.
[…]
Last Call on SVG Print
W3C has announced Last Call on SVG Print 1.2, which is in two parts:
SVG Print 1.2, Part 1: Primer
SVG Print 1.2, Part 2: Language
Feedback should be sent to public-svg-print@w3.org (public archive)
by 8 February 2008.
SVG Print is aimed at software which generates formatted, paginated material for […]
SVG Map Toolkit 0.3.0 Released
SVG Map consortium released SVG Map Toolkit 0.3.0 that aims to become a standard Web Map platform. It is also high-performance SVG Viewer for Internet Explorer that enhances the SVG 1.1 Tiny specification.
SVG Map Toolkit can be downloaded from the following link.
http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/12/svg_map_toolkit.html
Moreover, the world SVG map based on VMAP can be browsed from the following […]
SVG Animation Editor Feedback ?
Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0 just released, Now by popular request we are going to develop SVG animation plugins module for the Sketsa. We are stuck at how the UI will flow, do you like the way Adobe Flash Editor, Jasc Webdraw, or you prefer new ways for doing animation editor, etc ?
Please see this […]
Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0 released
KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. The visual design tools allows designer to select, draw, and edit objects easily, while the integrated DOM Editor and SVG source editor allows them to hand edit SVG source code for greater control.
What’s new:
Add command line open options
Add basic […]
SVG the future of web graphics
A web based graphics application using SVG and Javascript. It is supported by all mozilla based browsers and Opera. Demo of the application is at customi.se
and at
svg application
Application has the following features:
1) Desktop behaviour, use of arrow keys to move the objects, delete the object.
2) Freehand drawing tool
3) Import the image in drawing in PNG […]
Opera ships 9.50 build with SVGT 1.2 video support
Opera Software today released a new build of Opera 9.50 (Windows only for the moment, video support is being ported to other OS) which includes support for the SVG Tiny 1.2 video element. The Ogg Theora video format is supported (as used, for example, by Wikipedia, or Dell).
An article at Opera Labs describes this […]
Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Ubuntu Heron is “likely to see a complete visual refresh,” including a whole new icon theme that’ll use more SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and bring things more in line with the Tango icons used by GNOME.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/02/ubuntu-dev-summit-reveals-plans-for-upcoming-hardy-heron-relea/
SVG in Russian
There are a lot of designers and programmers in Russia who use flash and who want to learn some new technologies for vector graphics.
Some russian resources:
Manuals:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
http://xml.nsu.ru/extra/svgintro_0.xml
http://xmlhack.ru/topics/svg/index.html
And Articles:
http://jre.cplire.ru/koi/oct01/5/text.html
http://viju.tvercity.net/articles/svgformat
http://webmascon.com/topics/technologies/7a.asp
http://docs.gimp.org/ru/ch04s03s04.html
New Development Environment Supporting SVG
The cross-platform development environment 4D v11 SQL has just been released with built-in support for SVG rendering and a rich set of picture conversion and transformation tools. 4D v11 SQL includes an HTTP server and a SQL server making it a good tool to build a web server producing and serving SVG files.
Comments Closed
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Apple Releases SVG-Enabled Safari with Mac OS X 10.5
Safari 3 final has shipped as part of Mac OS X Leopard with an identical SVG feature set to the Safari 3 Beta. It’s great to see yet another browser shipping with native SVG support. Those tracking Apple’s progress know that recent WebKit nighty builds already demonstrate much more advanced SVG support than that shipping […]
Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 5.0-beta1 released
We just released Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 5.0-beta1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. Please keep in mind this is beta version and is therefore unstable). It is available from our site in the under download section.
Note: If you have access to Mac OSX, would you mind to try the new Mac […]
Bangladesh told to tackle torture
A US-based rights group urges Bangladesh’s caretaker government to end torture “endemic” to the country. more..
Huge food price rises for Africa
African countries will pay 49% more for imported cereals this year, causing “major global concern”, the UN says. more..
Strong earthquake strikes Greece
A strong earthquake causes buildings to shake in southern Greece and in the capital, Athens. more..
China ‘regrets’ Spielberg action
China says it regrets Steven Spielberg’s decision to resign as an Olympics adviser over the Darfur conflict. more..
Tension high for Beirut memorials
Tensions are high in Beirut as rival camps mark ex-PM Rafik Hariri’s death and a Hezbollah leader’s funeral. more..
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