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  22.       <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Paths and <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files</span>
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  41.       <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Paths and <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files</span>
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  47.       SVG, standing for ‚Äú<span class="quote">Scalable Vector Graphics</span>‚Äù, is an
  48.       increasingly popular file format for <span class="emphasis"><em>vector
  49.       graphics</em></span>, in which graphical elements are represented in a
  50.       resolution-independent format, in contrast to <span class="emphasis"><em>raster
  51.       graphics</em></span>; in which graphical elements are represented as
  52.       arrays of pixels. GIMP is mainly a raster graphics program, but paths
  53.       are vector entities.
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  56.       Fortunately, paths are represented in <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files in
  57.       almost exactly the same way they are represented in GIMP.  (Actually
  58.       fortune has nothing to do with it: GIMP's path handling was rewritten
  59.       for GIMP 2.0 with SVG paths in mind.) This compatibility makes it
  60.       possible to store GIMP paths as <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files without
  61.       losing any information. You can access this capability in the Paths
  62.       dialog.
  63.     </p>
  64.       <p>
  65.       It also means that GIMP can create paths from
  66.       <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files saved in other programs, such as
  67.       <span class="application">Inkscape</span> or
  68.       <span class="application">Sodipodi</span>,
  69.       two popular open-source vector graphics applications. This is nice
  70.       because those programs have much more powerful path-manipulation tools
  71.       than GIMP does. You can import a path from an <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym>
  72.       file using the Paths dialog.
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  74.       <p>
  75.       The <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym>
  76.       format handles many other graphical elements than just paths: among
  77.       other things, it handles figures such as squares, rectangles, circles,
  78.       ellipses, regular polygons, etc. GIMP 2.0 cannot do anything with these
  79.       entities, but GIMP 2.2 can load them as paths.
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  92.         Creating paths is not the only thing GIMP can do with
  93.         <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files. It can also open
  94.         <acronym class="acronym">SVG</acronym> files as GIMP images, in the usual way.
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