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The Book of Inkscape
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The Book of Inkscape

by Dmitry Kirsanov
September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
16h 45m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 20. Tutorial: Creating an Animation

From the start, SVG was designed as a language for both static and animated vector graphics. At one time dubbed “a Flash killer,” it is indeed suitable for a wide variety of scripted and declarative animations. Unfortunately, even several years after the introduction of SVG, real SVG animations (as opposed to static SVG) are hard to find on the Web. There are several reasons for this, the most important being the lack of a single standard player that would offer a significant competitive advantage over Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia’s) Flash. Currently, almost all of the animations on the Web are either in Flash or in animated GIF formats—just as they were five years ago.

From Inkscape’s perspective, however, ...

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