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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/21/07 02:27
dorayme wrote:
> In article <e0fb8$476afbf6$40cba7ad$6753@NAXS.COM>,
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>
>>>>> At least a .png file can often contain vector objects. I always
>>>>> keep master files of some things I do in Fireworks in the native
>>>>> saved format with layers, text and other vector objects. I export
>>>>> them for the web into various formats including png. What is
>>>>> exported are also .png files. These latter are not vector
>>>>> carriers though.
>
>> I think you will find that FW rasterizes the vector object or is not a
>> standard PNG format like my CorelDraw can have vector and bitmap
>> composite file. The true test if FW truly embeds the object as vector
>> then you should be able to extract the object and the result should be
>> the original vector. But I can say with fair certainty that any PNG that
>> is displays in a web browser is raster only.
>
>
> I thought I was sort of saying something similar... put it this
> way, in my originally made FW files that are saved (*not
> exported* to international standard formats), the squares and
> lines and text and other things I have made (as one does in
> Illustrator) seem to retain their vector qualities.
>
> I now know that they also appear the same whether exported or not
> in browsers (at least in Safari, FF, iCab, Opera and MacIE):
>
> http://netweaver.com.au/alt/png/png.html
>
> The pie.png was exported from pieNativeFW.png
>
It is quite obvious, raster only in both cases. Vector on enlargement
would have not anti-aliasing blur. If I have a composite CDR I can
select the vector part and save as any pure vector format with no
distortion, SVG, EPS, AI, DWG, CDR...
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Take care,
Jonathan
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