Adobe SVG Viewer
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This is currently the most popular browser plug-in for SVG. It is widely known as the "ASV" viewer. There have been 4 public releases of major version of the Adobe SVG viewer:
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ASV 1.0 (ASV1)
ASV1 was the first public release, in 2000. It conformed to a draft specification of SVG 1.0.
ASV 2.0 (ASV2)
ASV2 was the second public release, in 2001; it may arguably be the most commonly distributed viewer, since it was bundled with Adobe's popular Acrobat Reader 5.
ASV 3.0 (ASV3)
Adobe's third public release, this improved dramatically on ASV2 in terms of conformance and API, but was never distributed widely by them; it has undergone 3 minor security releases, and is now up to version 3.03; this is still the version that is available for wide public download.
ASV3 Beta Linux Installation Instruction
You can download the Linux version from the regular, Adobe ASV download site. Grab the Redhat Linux version. It should work in any Linux distribution. Linux is not yet a fully supported platform by the Adobe SVG team. However, they provide this beta version which did not go through quality assurance. ASV3 on Linux does not properly work in current Firefox/Mozilla versions, but should work in Konqueror and Opera. Download the tar.gz file and untar it in a temporary directory ("tar -zxvf adobesvg-3.01x88-linux-i386.tar.gz"). cd to the adobesvg-3.01 directory. Adobe provides an install shell script, but that usually does not work, due to the heterogenous pathes used in the various Linux distribution. You can safely delete the file "install.sh". As a next step copy all remaining files in this directory to your plugin directory (on my SuSE box it is "/usr/lib/browser-plugins"). If the browser does not yet watch this directory for detecting new plugins you need to tell it. In Konqueror open "Settings" --> "Configure Konqueror" --> "Plugins" --> and edit the "Scan Folders". You can add the new directory if it is not yet listed and tell konqueror to manually scan for new plugins. ASV should now appear in the plugins list as "libNPSVG3.so". In Konqueror if you want to use ASV instead of KSVG you need to edit the "File Associations" in the "Configure Konqueror" panel. In the known types tree view go to "image" --> "svg+xml" go to the "Embedding" tab and check "Show file in embedded viewer". In the "Services Preference Order" list move the "Netscape plugin viewer (nsplugin)" up to the first position. Your Konqueror is now ready to view SVG files in ASV3. In Opera you need to go to "Tools" --> "Preferences" --> "Advanced" --> "Content" --> "Plug-in options" and add the path to the "Plug-in path". ASV should now be enabled in Opera.
ASV 6.0 preview release 1 (ASV6pr1, ASV6)
Between this release and ASV2, Adobe made several versions that were not released as browser plug-ins, but only as internal modules inside Acrobat. ASV6pr1 implements several experimental features from the the SVG 1.2 specification, including text wrapping to arbitrary shapes, text editing, and RCC (which has become sXBL). ASV6pr1 can be downloaded from the ASV beta download site. This version is only available for the Windows platform.
