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Adobe and SVG
SVG: Foundation technology for the Internet of the future
Adobe believes SVG will fundamentally transform nearly all aspects of the Web experience. Because it combines XML with professional-quality graphics, SVG will play a fundamental role in e-commerce and the future of the Internet. Here are some selected examples:
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Online brochures: To sell more products, companies will create online brochures using SVG that have the same professional graphics quality as their current glossy print brochures, but the online versions will add interactivity and dynamic behaviors to create a more immersive experience than is possible with print. |
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Online catalogs: For many purchasing experiences, it will be faster and more fulfilling to shop online than by visiting the store personally or by using a paper catalog. This is already true today in many industries. SVG will advance this technology further. In particular, SVG supports precise color on display and print via sRGB and ICC color management, ensuring that the article you purchase will have the same colors when you view it and print it as it does when it arrives at your door and you open the package. |
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Electronic classroom: Printed textbooks are rich with typography and illustrations. Online textbooks will be just as graphically rich (thanks to SVG) but will also be fully interactive and electronically connected to instructors at the other end of the wire. |
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Maps: SVG maps will pan and zoom in real time without accessing the server. Moving the mouse over sections of the map will cause highlights and descriptive information to appear. Printouts will be beautiful color graphics at full printer resolution with the same levels of detail as current hard-copy maps, but with database-driven markers showing where you are now and where you are going. |
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Online account statements and billing: Clear, precise delivery of financial information is critical to effective communication between financial service providers and their clients. SVG will provide the great graphics to make online delivery as clear and precise as hard-copy statements, but Web access will ensure all information is up-to-the-minute. |
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Extranets: Today's manufacturing industry is driven by mountains of graphically rich documents that illustrate the designs of the billions of components used to build today's products. Paper documentation will be replaced by online delivery via XML and SVG through company extranets, realizing efficiencies worth billions of dollars in business-to-business communication and transactions. |
Adobe's commitment
Adobe is committed to supporting SVG across its product line. Adobe applications will both import and generate SVG. Additionally, Adobe will be adding SVG-specific enhancements to its authoring tools.
At this time, Adobe is providing two significant SVG tools:
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An SVG Viewer that supports both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. |
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Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and direct support of SVG export. |
The above SVG tools are just the tip of the iceberg for the SVG-related product activities that are coming down the road from Adobe, once SVG becomes a W3C Recommendation (that is finalized and approved), currently scheduled for the second half of 2000.
Adobe's contributions to accelerating deployment of SVG
Adobe will be leveraging all available channels of deployment for ensuring that SVG viewing capabilities will be on as many desktops as possible as quickly as possible.
To prevent the many problems associated with the early years of HTML (where different browsers implemented significantly different feature sets) and the current problems with HTML (where browser vendors implement different subsets of W3C standards), Adobe will be making every effort to ensure that the first official shipping versions of its SVG Viewers implement the SVG 1.0 Specification as completely as possible, and that its authoring tools generate fully compliant SVG. This will establish a baseline feature set and quality, which will set the bar for initial implementations of SVG at a professional-quality level from the start. |
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