SVG Salamander

SVG Salamander is an SVG engine for Java that's designed to be small, fast, and allow programmers to use it with a minimum of fuss. It's in particular targeted for making it easy to integrate SVG into Java games and making it much easier for artists to design 2D game content - from rich interactive menus to charts and graphics to complex animations.

Features

Ant task to allow easy conversion from SVG to images from within Ant scripts
SVGIcon class greatly simplifies loading and drawing images to screen
A much smaller code foot print than Batik, and only one JAR file to include
Direct access to the scene graph tree. You can use Java commands to manipulate it directly.
An index of all named shapes in the SVG graph is easily accessible.
Picking shapes given (x, y) coordinates is possible, and can be used to implement graphical buttons selected by the mouse
Clip region sensitivity makes for fast rendering when only updating part of the image. This makes panning the camera quite efficient.
Easy rendering to any Graphics2D or BufferedImage. Unlike Batik, the SVG Salamander engine does not own the graphics context, so you can pass it whatever graphics context you like.
Internal and external links are implemented as URIs, which allows the engine to automatically import linked documents - even if they're stored on a remote server.
SVG can be read from an InputStream, so you can create documents dynamically from an in-program XSLT transformation.

Current status

SVG Salamander is part of the Salamander project hosted on http://www.kitfox.com

Download

SVG Salamander binaries are available on Maven Central.

If you use Maven or Gradle, add a dependency with following coordinates to your build script:

groupId:     com.formdev
artifactId:  svgSalamander
version:     (see button below)

Otherwise download svgSalamander-<version>.jar here:

Snapshots

SVG Salamander snapshot binaries are available on Sonatype OSSRH. To access the latest snapshot, change the SVG Salamander version in your dependencies to <version>-SNAPSHOT and add the repository https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/ to your build (see Maven and Gradle docs).

License

SVG Salamander is available both under the BSD and LGPL licenses.

weisJ / svgSalamander