XML News from Friday, July 30, 2004

Sun has posted the proposed final draft specification for JSR-226, Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API . "This API is targeted for low-end mobile devices with constraints in memory, screen size, and computational power. The goal of this specification is to define an optional API package for rendering Scalable 2D vector images, including external images in SVG format. The main target use cases of this API are map visualization, scalable icons and other applications which require scalable, animated graphics."


Altsoft N.V. has released, Xml2PDF, a .NET-based XSL-FO and SVG formatting engine that converts XSL-FO and SVG documents to PDF. There are actually several versions of this with different prices: