Apache Batik

Batik

show Screenshot Batik running Solitaire Sample
Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	1.14 / January 20, 2021; 7 months ago (2021-01-20)
Repository	svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/batik/trunk
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik

Batik is a pure-Java library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics (SVG is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics). IBM supported the project and then donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation, where other companies and teams decided to join efforts. Batik provides a set of core modules that provide functionality to:

• Render and dynamically modify SVG content,
• Transcode SVG content to some raster Graphics file formats, such as PNG, JPEG and TIFF,
• Transcode Windows Metafiles to SVG (WMF or Windows Metafile Format is the vector format used by Microsoft Windows applications),
• And manage scripting and user events on SVG documents.

The Batik distribution also contains a ready-to-use SVG browser (called Squiggle) making use of the above modules.

The name of the library comes from the Batik painting technique.

Status[]

Batik was long the most conformant existing SVG 1.1 implementation^[1][2][3] and as of 2011 is just a small fraction behind Opera.^{[citation needed]}

Version 1.7, made available on January 10, 2008, had an "almost full" implementation of the current state of the sXBL specification,^[4] a nearly complete implementation of SVG declarative animation SMIL features, and some of the SVG 1.2 late October 2004 working draft (see SVG's Development history).

See also[]

• Scalable Vector Graphics
• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
• sXBL: a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behaviour of elements described in a namespace other than SVG files
• Comparison of layout engines (SVG)

References[]

External links[]

• Apache Batik Project
• Current status of Batik's sXBL implementation
• The official SVG page at W3C, SVG Working Group