Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

Map publishing with SVG

Friday, February 11th, 2005

We’ve been tinkering with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This rather under-used XML based graphics format is ideal for publishing map data on the web. With the included scripting capabilities some neat effects can be achieved - like this map with selectable countries.
In our view, many websites could vastly improve their usability simply by including […]

Converting 3B2 source to Folio

Friday, February 4th, 2005

We’ve just completed a publishing job which required reading 3B2 version 8 source and outputing Folio flat file format. If you don’t have a support contract from Advent3B2 it is hard to find information about the 3B2 format. If you are like me and prefer diving into some code rather than reading documentation this script […]