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JavaFX for the
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
—Scott Adams
In a JavaFX environment, the goal for the graphic designer is to use his or her
creativity to forge graphical assets and then export them for JavaFX in the form
of JavaFX Objects. First, the graphic designer helps to design the visual presen-
tation and then often generates his or her designs using various symbols, draw-
ings, texts, images, colors, and special effects. After the graphic designer
generates the graphical assets in the form of JavaFX Objects, it is up to the appli-
cation developer to use those graphical objects in a Rich Internet Application.
Typically, graphic designers use specialized design tools to develop graphical
assets. Of these, Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 are the most
popular. Another common graphical format is Scalable Vector Graphics, or
SVG, and most graphic design programs provide SVG export capabilities.
This chapter discusses the process that the graphic designer will need to follow
to export his artwork to a form that can be used in JavaFX. Specifically, we
describe the procedure to export graphical assets from Adobe Illustrator CS3 and
Adobe Photoshop CS3. In addition, we discuss the SVG to JavaFX Convertor
utility to convert Scalable Vector Graphic files to JavaFX.
The graphical assets described in this chapter will later be used in Chapter 7,
Add Motion with JavaFX Animation. This chapter focuses on the graphic
designer, and what he or she needs to do to generate graphical objects. Chapter 7
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