SVG Output

XSL Formatter V3.4 outputs SVG that is compliant to W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 specification. Moreover, it also outputs SVG Tiny and SVG Basic in the Mobile SVG Profiles.

Customers must purchase "XSL Formatter SVG Output Option" to output SVG. See also Antenna House website for more details.

XSL Formatter V3.4 can output any of the SVG 1.1, SVG Basic and SVG Tiny. When a profile is not specified, it is regarded as SVG 1.1.

Mobile SVG Profiles are the specifications for mobile computing devices or cellular phones which have restrictions in the throughput of the hardware, the memory capacity and the number of colors that can be displayed.

Since SVG Tiny is for the hardware with the most restrictions, like a cellular phone, the supported elements and attributes are quite limited. Therefore, the reproduction level of the original document may be low.

SVG Basic is for more high-efficient pocket devices, such as high-efficient PDA, and has fewer restrictions than SVG Tiny. See also Mobile SVG Profiles for more details.

XSL Formatter V3.4 outputs SVG Tiny and SVG Basic on the basis of the output for SVG 1.1 by disregarding the unsupported elements.

When the document composed of multiple pages is converted into SVG, each page will be output to each file. It is possible to output them collectively to one file by setting Command-line Interface etc. However, when it is output as standard out, it is always output to one file.

For more information about supported graphic images, refer to the "Graphics".

With SVG Output, there are three types of methods for hundling images. these methods can be specified with the Command-line Interface or the Option Setting File, etc.

• Embedding

  Raster images are embedded in SVG as Base64 encoding. Vector images are outputted as SVG.

• Linking

  Images are linked using the URI of the link origin without change.

• Copying and linking

  Images are copied to the place where they are specified and are described as a link there. the copy destination can be specified by copy-image-path, etc. in the Option Setting File.

There are two types of images in FO.

• Images by external reference

  Images are referenced externally by <fo:external-graphic>.

• Images embedded

  Images encorded by Base64 using the data scheme by <fo:external-graphic> is embedded, or the images are embedded in FO by <fo:instream-foreign-object>.

In XSL Formatter V3.4, all the images referred by outputted SVG are converted into JPEG or PNG or SVG. For this reason, images embedded or extenally referenced are humdled as follows.

Please refer to "Font Setting" for the font.

With SVG Output, the font can be embedded into SVG. However, the outline might not be able to be embedded correctly for certain TrueType and OpenType fonts.

SVG Tiny