Java Drawing with Apache Batik: A Tutorial

by Alexander Kolesnikov, Budi Kurniawan, Paul Deck

A guide to Apache Batik—the Java library that can be used to read SVG files and translate the instructions in the files into graphics—this book shows how Batik can also be used to save the graphics as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, and other formats, so that the graphics can be transferred. Covered is how Batik can also be used to create animation, just like Flash movies and how Batik can potentially be used to create a drawing program such as Corel DRAW.

450 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006