SVG export

Note: This function is only provided with the SVG export add-on (Enabling or disabling add-ons).

The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a graphics format for the Internet based on XML.

The *.svg graphics files can be viewed with browsers natively supporting the *.svg format or having an SVG plug-in.

You can edit these files in other graphics programs, for example Adobe Illustrator, or with the Open Source vector graphics editor Inkscape, available at http://www.inkscape.org. Moreover, you can edit the files using a text editor. The *.svg format is ideal as a graphics exchange format and offers numerous advantages compared to other graphics formats:

  • Scalability with no loss in quality
  • Rotatable and infinite zoomability
  • Embedded information on objects
  • Interactive access to objects
  • Manipulation through script
  • Animation

You can read *.svg graphics files in Visum as background (Inserting background images of map services provided on the Internet).

Tip: You can also export the following views as files in the *.svg format: