Scalable Vector Graphics

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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a computer language to describe two dimensional images. It's based on XML and created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The language allows to describe pictures by their elements. So you can zoom in and it stays clear without big pixels.

Contents 1 History 2 Structure 3 Difference between bitmap and vector images 4 Other Websites

[change] History

The W3C published SVG in September 2001. Most browsers can show these graphics but Internet Explorer cannot. It needs a plugin to show them.

The normal Filename extension is .svg and the MIME-Type is image/svg+xml.

[change] Structure

SVG uses Extensible Markup Language (XML). So it has an definition of the document type.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
 version="1.1" baseProfile="full"
 width="800mm" height="600mm">

<!-- content of the file -->

</svg>

[change] Difference between bitmap and vector images

This image illustrates the difference between bitmap and vector images. The vector image can be scaled indefinitely, while the bitmap cannot.

[change] Other Websites

• VectorMagic Online raster to SVG converter