EchoSVG milestone release 0.1.1

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EchoSVG is a SVG toolkit (fork of Apache Batik) that uses CSS4J as its CSS engine.

This second milestone release of the EchoSVG project is intended as a new baseline for future updates.

Summary of changes since the Batik fork:

• New CSS engine supporting level 4 selectors and RGBA colors (with alpha channel), based on CSS4J.
• codec and transcoder packages were merged, removing a runtime circular dependency. See #11.
• Pyhton and Tcl scripting removed (they were already commented out in Batik), see #12 and #13.
• Removed support for PDF vector image format (which introduced a hidden FOP-Batik circular dependency, see #10).
• Remove the useless shared-resources package, whose resources are now inserted into the META-INF directory of the jar files.
• Build system switched to Gradle (#8).
• The xml-apis-ext dependency was modularized (#15).
  
• Generator: support decoration attributes in text elements (#16).
  
• Generator: conversions to SVG fonts now support strikethrough-* and underline-* attributes (#17).
  
• The regard tests were converted to JUnit (#1) and (most of them) adapted to pass on non-Windows platforms (#21), although some non-trivial work still remains to be done about that.
• Several bug fixes (some fixed during the initial cleanup, additional ones introduced later).

Usage from a Gradle project

If your Gradle project depends on EchoSVG, you can use this project's own Maven repository in a repositories section of your build file (build.gradle or other):

repositories {

  maven {

    url "https://css4j.github.io/maven/"

    mavenContent {

      releasesOnly()

    }

    content {

      includeGroup 'io.sf.carte'

      includeGroup 'io.sf.jclf'

    }

  }

}

please use that repository only for the artifact groups that it supplies (basically those listed in the above includeGroup statements).

Then you can list the dependencies, for example:

dependencies {

    api "io.sf.carte:echosvg-transcoder:${echosvgVersion}"

}

where echosvgVersion would be defined in a gradle.properties file.