Java Drawing with Apache Batik: A Tutorial Book

Introduction     1
Getting Started with Batik     9
Batik Overview     9
Batik in Real World Projects     12
Your First SVG Document     12
Using SVG Rasterizer     19
Using Pretty-Printer     20
What Else Comes with Batik?     21
Summary     23
Creating SVG     25
Drawing in Java     25
Using SVG Creator     26
Other Features of SVG Generator     35
Summary     37
Viewing SVG     39
Displaying Generated SVG Documents     39
JSVGCanvas Interactivity     45
Saving the Generated Document     48
Displaying an SVG File     57
Summary     61
Working with Transcoders     63
The Transcoder API     63
Using Transcoders in Applications     66
Setting the Area of Interest     75
Using the SVGTranscoder for Pretty Printing     77
The Enhanced Version of the SVG File Viewer     78
Summary     82
Document Object Model     83
SVG Document as a DOM Tree     83
Creating Documents with the DOM API     85
Building an SVG Document     86
Working with Gradients     92
Using the DOM API     100
Other Thoughts     110
Summary     111
Working with Text and Fonts     113
Using the text Element     113
SVG Fonts     115
Using the Font Converter     116
Using SVG Fonts in a Document     117
Text Workbench: SVG Writer     120
Text Elements, Text Nodes, and Text Content     125
Characters Positioning     126
Using tspan elements     129
Text Layout     134
Text on A Path     140
Text Selection     148
Summary     150
Batik on the Server Side     151
The SVG Graph Web Application     151
SVG Filter Effects     163
SVG Filters Web Application     165
Summary     183
Batik Interactive     185
SVG and Scripts     185
Interactivity     187
Animation     189
Scripting Alternatives     195
Using Java for "Scripting"     196
Adding Animation     205
Summary      211
Introduction to XML     213
Benefits of XML     213
Well-Formed XML Documents     215
Validating XML Documents     218
Related XML Resources     227
Introduction to JavaScript     229
Your First Script     229
Variables     230
Arrays     231
Operators     232
Loops     237
Branching in JavaScript     240
Functions     244
Objects     245
Index     247