SVG Output

Antenna House Formatter V7.4 outputs SVG that is compliant to W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 specification. It also outputs SVG Tiny and SVG Basic in the Mobile SVG Profiles.

In Antenna House Formatter V7.4 any of SVG 2, SVG 1.1, SVG Basic and SVG Tiny can be outputted as an SVG profile. When a profile is not specified, it is considered SVG 2.

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 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. For more details, see also Mobile SVG Profiles.

Antenna House Formatter V7.4 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 as individual files. 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, see the “Graphics”.

With SVG Output, there are three types of methods for handling 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> or <img> of HTML.

• Images embedded

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

In Antenna House Formatter V7.4, all the images referred by outputted SVG are converted into JPEG or PNG or SVG. For this reason, images embedded or externally referenced are handled as follows:

SVG Tiny