In 1989 the Air Transport Association (ATA) adopted Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) as the format for the interchange of 2-dimensional vector based technical illustrations in maintenance documentation. Both The Boeing Company and United Airlines, along with much of the rest of the industry, use CGM internally to transfer 2-dimensional vector data between diverse systems.
The decision to use CGM, both at the industry level and by individual companies, was made after a review of available open and proprietary formats. Requirements for creation,
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL 2.0) is an XML-based language that allows authors to describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.
Rather than being formulated as a standalone multimedia vocabulary (like SMIL 1.0), SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics may be reused in other XML-based languages, as when SMIL components are used for integrating timing into eXstensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) or Scalable Vector
Let me begin by giving a bit of my background which can help make clearer where I am coming from and the reasons why I am suggesting that more attention should be given to how graphics can look using the very rich and subtle tools available in SVG.
My education was in art - painting, design, photography, art history and art criticism mostly - and that is what I have taught for the past 45 years. In 1994, I was asked to teach a course, Commentary on Art, at a distance and luckily, for me, that winter Netscape appeared and I was able to use it for the
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a format of graphic that can be generated on the fly by using the data extracted from XML files or a database. Creating images on the fly in the other formats like GIF, JPEG, and BMP are not easy since they cannot be created dynamically by extracting data from the data file. Moreover if you view images from these formats at 200% or 300% of the actual size you will not see the images clearly and you will be seeing granular forms of the areas in the images. You need external tools like Paintbrush, Photoshop, and Fireworks
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