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| Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
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| Stable release | 1.17 / August 22, 2023; 18 months ago (2023-08-22) |
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| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | xmlgraphics |
Batik is a pure-Java library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulateSVG graphics. IBM supported the project and then donated the code to theApache Software Foundation, where other companies and teams decided to join efforts.Batik provides a set of core modules that provide functionality to:
The Batik distribution also contains a ready-to-use SVG browser (called Squiggle) making use of the above modules.
The name of the library comes from theBatik painting technique.
Batik was long the most conformant existingSVG 1.1 implementation[1][2][3] and as of 2011[update] is just a small fraction behindOpera.[citation needed]
Version 1.7, made available on January 10, 2008, had an "almost full" implementation of the current state of thesXBL specification,[4] a nearly complete implementation of SVGdeclarative animationSMIL features, and some of theSVG 1.2 late October 2004 working draft (seeSVG's Development history).
