- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an open standard for web graphics. SVG content displays 2D content with consistent quality at different zoom levels and on different sized screens.
- SVG is an XML grammar specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the non-profit, industry-wide, open-standards consortium that created HTML and XML, for the web. Over forty organizations, including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, IBM, Kodak, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM and Sun Microsystems have been involved in defining SVG and implementing standards-compliant products and infrastructure so consumers can use SVG on all kinds of devices today.
- Publish charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, presentations, spreadsheet views, technical illustrations, reports and more, efficiently and easily on the web and for mobile devices
- Email output from your everyday programs to other computer users on different systems for viewing and printing
- Print accurate, scalable vector graphics, text and images
- Archive WYSIWYG information in an efficient, compressed, viewable, printable, cross-platform file format
- Mark-up, edit and animate content with authoring tools from Adobe, Beatware and Zoomon
- Search the text in your illustrations and expose illustration text to web search engines
- Parse, process and manage your documents with standard XML technologies
- Embed metadata as XML expressions in the graphics file with object level granularity for interactivity and associations
- Animate with SMIL (the W3C web standard for animation) tools
- Get information from your desktop programs onto mobile devices with viewers from BitFlash, CSIRO and Zoomon
- Viewable and printable in popular browser environments
- Scalable, efficient, prints well at all sizes, doesn't suffer pixelised distortion
- Enables distribution of images for viewing and printing on desktops, handhelds and phones without requiring your audience to have any version of the desktop application software
- Enables distribution of images for viewing and printing without releasing CAD geometry models
- Documents can be systematically localized because text remains accessible and editable as text
- Works with XML because it is XML
- Vendor-neutral open standard managed by the Worldwide Web Consortium and endorsed by 3GPP
