[ale] Gimp question

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim)]

Well, in a broad sense, maybe. But SVG is a relatively new protocol 
officially recognized by W3C. See the specification here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/

And  there is also a toolkit for rendering SVG, called Batik, available 
here:

http://xml.apache.org/batik/

SVG is strictly for rendering images and doesn't serve as a "page 
description language" which is how Postscript is defined.

James Kinney wrote:

> I thought that's what postscript was. A language for generating scalable
> vector graphics. That's why printers must have a postscript interpretor to
> print real postscript.
> 
>  On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Jim wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>James Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That said, there are several vector graphics packages that currently
>>>escape my nameing function right now. Freshmeat...
>>>
>>>
>>Maybe you are thinking of scalable vector graphics (SVG)? For any who
>>are new to this, SVG is an image generated no pixel by pixel, but line
>>by line, through an algorithm. They have none of the aliasing problems
>>of pixellized images and don't suffer from enlargement either.
>>
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