SVG : Java Glossary

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SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics. W3C’s file format for exchanging images stored as vectors an opposed to pixels. Eventually it might become for images what HTML is for text, a way of compactly sending images around the Internet to be displayed in browsers. It is officially recommended by W3C. It uses XML to mathematically describe an image. For example, the following .svg file renders as a ladybug.
ladybug
You can see how it handles gradients. The XML file specifies the colours at various intermediate points and the rendering engine interpolates.

Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw(read only), Sodipodi, Sketch and Kontour support svg files. The Gimp does not. Opera browser will render them on the command line or in <img tags, allowing you to scale them up as big as you want, then capture them as png files with FastStone.

FastStone
gif
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Image
ImageIO
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SVG specification
vector
W3C
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