FXG
Encyclopedia
Flash XML Graphics is a specification for an XML
-based graphics file format
for describing two-dimensional vector graphics
being developed by Adobe Systems
. FXG is planned as a graphics interchange format for cross-application file support, and is to be primarily used by Adobe Flash
and Adobe Flash Player
.
The XML model for FXG is based as closely as possible on the SVG XML graphics format. There were some early misconceptions that the FXG file format was designed to be a standard for raster graphics
file interchange, this has since been demonstrated to be incorrect.
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
-based graphics file format
File format
A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for...
for describing two-dimensional vector graphics
Vector graphics
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics...
being developed by Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
. FXG is planned as a graphics interchange format for cross-application file support, and is to be primarily used by Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
and Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player
The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other...
.
The XML model for FXG is based as closely as possible on the SVG XML graphics format. There were some early misconceptions that the FXG file format was designed to be a standard for raster graphics
Raster graphics
In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium...
file interchange, this has since been demonstrated to be incorrect.