The must-have Scalable Vector Graphics primer for web designers. This is the only practical book on SVG available. Each chapter contains all the code and instruction necessary to begin designing projects in SVG immediately.

* SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), an XML-based technology, is the open source standard for delivering vector graphics over the Web, allowing designers more exacting control over the appearance of Web pages * Using a minimum of technical jargon, this book explains how to create SVG images using Illustrator, GoLive, and other popular software * Teaches designers to add specific fonts to Web pages using SVG, integrate small but visually exciting bitmap images, use Cascading Style Sheets to format SVG graphics, and more

Scalable Vector Graphics -- or SVG -- is the new XML-based graphics standard from the W3C that will enable Web documents to be smaller, faster and more interactive. J. David Eisenberg's insightful book takes you through the ins and outs of SVG, beginning with basics needed to create simple line drawings and then moving through more complicated features like filters, transformations, and integration with Java, Perl, and XSLT. Unlike GIFs, JPEGs or PNGs (which are bitmapped), SVG images are both resolution- and device-independent, so that they can scale up or down to fit proportionally into any size display or any Internet device -- from PDAs to large office monitors and high-resolution printers. Smaller than bitmapped files and faster to download, SVG images can be rendered with different CSS styles for each environment. They work well across a range of available bandwidths. SVG makes it possible for designers to escape the constant need to update graphics by hand or use custom code to generate bitmap images. And while SVG was created with the Web in mind, the language has a variety of other uses. SVG greatly simplifies tasks like:

An exploration of scalable vector graphics (SVG) from both a design and a programming perspective. It provides users with explanations on creating graphics and using SVG with other applications.

Do you want an unlimited source of free Cricut designs? These high-quality SVG cut files are just waiting for you to upload into Cricut Design Space. You can waste your valuable crafting time searching for free SVG files or use this handy-dandy Cricut guide and have more than 150 websites filled with cut files for Cricut machines right at your fingertips. Every Cricut project starts with a design. You'll never lack inspiration with thousands of images or struggle for new Cricut ideas again. The talented designers that create these SVG designs have done all hard work for you and want to share them with you. All you have to do is find them. So let me show you all the best places to find free SVG files for Cricut, Cameo, and Silhouette machines. Inside this Cricut how to book you'll also learn: Creative ways to use cut files How to create SVG files Where to find free Cricut SVG files Common problems with SVG's Money making ideas Step-by-step video tutorials Helpful FAQs and much more These free SVG images are compatible with all the Cricut Explore machines, Cricut Maker, and the Cricut Joy. So have fun making beautiful crafts with these free designs for Cricut.

Using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for illustrations only scratches the surface of this format’s potential on the web. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to use SVG not only for illustrations but also as graphical documents that you can integrate into complex HTML5 web pages, and style with custom CSS. Web developers will discover ways to adapt designs by adding data based graphics, dynamic styles, interaction, or animation. Divided into five parts, this book includes: SVG on the web: Understand how SVG works with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to define graphics Drawing with markup: Learn the vector language of x and y coordinates that let SVG create basic and custom shapes Putting graphics in their place: Use the coordinate system to draw SVG shapes and text at different scales and positions Artistic touches: Explore how color is used, how strokes are created and manipulated, and how graphical effects like filters, clipping, and masking are applied SVG as an application: Make your graphic more accessible to humans and computers, and learn how to make it interactive or animated

Aimed at intermediate to advanced Web developers, this guide has examples throughout the book that have all been tested in the author's classroom training. This is the get-up-to-speed-quickly guide to SVG--Scalable Vector Graphics--for the experienced Web developer.

Create beautiful projects step by step with your Cricut® ambassador, Kimberly Coffin, of Sweet Red Poppy® Learn to use your Cricut machine and make gorgeous projects with Cricut ambassador, Kimberly Coffin in this Cricut book for beginners and seasoned crafters! Kimberly will teach you how to use your machine with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Kimberly has been trusted by Cricut to test each new machine before launch for the past several years. She knows how overwhelming Cricut can be for beginners with no idea where to start, so she made it her goal to learn all she could, then spent months on trial and error. Once she got the hang of it, she fell in love with Cricut! It's now her mission to help you love your machine, have fun using it and create stunning projects. This book is loaded with everything you need to know to make the best use of your Cricut. It includes: How to use tools, software, materials, etc. Information about different Cricut models Step-by-step projects Free downloadable files Tutorials Access to giveaways and much more!

Correcting the Great Mistake People often mistake one thing for another. That’s human nature. However, one would expect the leaders in a particular ?eld of endeavour to have superior ab- ities to discriminate among the developments within that ?eld. That is why it is so perplexing that the technology elite – supposedly savvy folk such as software developers, marketers and businessmen – have continually mistaken Web-based graphics for something it is not. The ?rst great graphics technology for the Web,VRML,has been mistaken for something else since its inception. Viewed variously as a game system,a format for architectural walkthroughs,a platform for multi-user chat and an augmentation of reality,VRML may qualify as the least understood invention in the history of inf- mation technology. Perhaps it is so because when VRML was originally introduced it was touted as a tool for putting the shopping malls of the world online,at once prosaic and horrifyingly mundane to those of us who were developing it. Perhaps those ?rst two initials,“VR”,created expectations of sprawling,photorealistic f- tasy landscapes for exploration and play across the Web. Or perhaps the magnitude of the invention was simply too great to be understood at the time by the many, ironically even by those spending the money to underwrite its development. Regardless of the reasons,VRML suffered in the mainstream as it was twisted to meet unintended ends and stretched far beyond its limitations.