More SVG Support, and a Thought
October 26, 2003
Software company Beatware announced their latest version of e-Picture Pro with additional support for SVG, including both SVG Tiny and SVG Basic. What’s interesting about this announcement is that Beatware is emphasizing the need to put more control over SVG in the hands of the graphic arts professional. For example, e-Picture Pro has built-in constraints that enable you to create illustrations while honoring the limitations of Basic and Tiny. This keeps the graphic artist in the driver’s seat, and eliminates the need for hand-coding. This is the kind of product feature that will help expand the use of SVG.
My thought is that there should be a source of concentrated news on SVG. It is very hard to tease SVG news out of some product announcements (e.g., Adobe's recent release of its new creative suite). In other cases, smaller companies who have dedicated themselves to SVG have trouble getting the word out. Could the market use a newsletter or news source specifically to cover SVG? I have been thinking about if for a while. Please get in touch if you have some ideas on this.
Bill Trippe
btrippe@nmpub.com
Posted by Bill Trippe at October 26, 2003 10:04 AM
