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Background 

        STUTTGART UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED 

SCIENCES 

On  top  of  basic  shapes  like  rectangles,  ellipses,  circles,  lines,  polygons,  etc,  SVGT 

offers  full  support  for  Bezier type  curves,  with  only  the  elliptical  arc  commands  not 

available. The second most basic set of features that you ll be looking at in SVG Tiny 

will probably be text. 

SVG  Tiny  delivers  by  allowing  for  most text operations  from  SVG  Full,  apart  from 

text  on  a  path  and  text  fragments.  Still  in  the  text  area,  SVG  Tiny  supports  simple 

SVG  fonts  definitions  so  that  you  can  ensure  your  types  design  will  be  respected 

across  all  devices  and  most  importantly  scale  well  (as  opposed  to  system  fonts). 

Raster  images  are  also  supported,  with  the  two  mandated  formats  being  PNG  and 

JPEG. 

SVG  Tiny  supports  solid  fills  and  strokes  on  paths  and  basic  shapes.  On  the  other 

hand,  gradients  and  pattern  fills  are  not  available;  they  were  thought  to  be  too 

computing intensive  for  the  SVG  Tiny  1.1  timeframe.  Opacity,  masks  and  clips  are 

not there either for the same reasons.   

One  of  the  main  design  goals  of  SVG  Tiny  was  to  provide  a  solution  for  the  new 

generation of messaging services. In order to cater to this requirement, SVG Tiny was 

designed  to  offer  the  full  spectrum  of  what  SVG  Full  offers  in  terms  of  animation 

capabilities. All the elements and attributes supported by SVG Tiny can be animated, 

using either discrete, paced, or finely tuned  interpolations, or even  motion paths. All 

of this allows for the creation of SVG cartoons and gimmicky animations.   

2.4.4  SVGT Viewer 

There are quite a few available implementations for consuming SVG Tiny content on 

a mobile device.   

The first one to mention is 

TinyLine

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, because it s easy to obtain, it s free, and it can be 

run  on  a  phone  that  doesn t  ship  with  a  built in  SVG  implementation. 

ZOOMON 

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  http://www.tinyline.com 

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