In previous recipes, we have seen how to use commercial designer tools as part of the JavaFX development workflow by integrating creative content from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3/CS4. If you are not using these Adobe tools, (or in some cases using a older version), or maybe you are a supporter of open source, is it possible to export creative content from other tools into JavaFX? The answer is an emphatic "yes!".
Continuing with the theme of designer integration with JavaFX in this recipe, we will look at how to integrate scalable vector graphics (SVG) into JavaFX projects using the Production Suite tools. This will allow you to integrate directly scalable vector graphics created in commercial or open source packages into JavaFX.
To be able to convert graphics objects from an SVG file to JavaFX graphics objects, you must first download Production Suite from http://javafx.com/downloads/, and install it properly. Production...