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*Florida digital Archive has "high confidence level" in ability to preserve SVG files with no Java script binding: [http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/formatInfo.htm FDA Recommended Data File Formats]
 
*Florida digital Archive has "high confidence level" in ability to preserve SVG files with no Java script binding: [http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/formatInfo.htm FDA Recommended Data File Formats]
 
*According to [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/vector_images.pdf Mike Coyne, David Duce, Bob Hopgood, George Mallen, Mike Stapleton. The Significant Properties of Vector Images. JISC report, 27 November 2007], "The only non-proprietary vector graphics standards capable of being used as an archival format for 2D vector graphics at this point in time are WebCGM, SVG 1.1 and PDF/A." (p. 52)
 
*According to [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/vector_images.pdf Mike Coyne, David Duce, Bob Hopgood, George Mallen, Mike Stapleton. The Significant Properties of Vector Images. JISC report, 27 November 2007], "The only non-proprietary vector graphics standards capable of being used as an archival format for 2D vector graphics at this point in time are WebCGM, SVG 1.1 and PDF/A." (p. 52)
*The SVG 1.1 standard supports single-page files only, so the format cannot be used for multi-page Adobe Illustrator files.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 12:52, 3 December 2010

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Significant characteristics of vector images

Preservation Format

SVG 1.1 for single-page files only

Access Format

PDF/A

Normalization tools

  • Inkscape for SVG 1.1
  • Ghostscript for PDF

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