Posted by dorayme on 12/20/07 23:03

In article <slrnfmlpvg.mls.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> On 2007-12-20, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > In article <fkemgn$qoc$1@aioe.org>,
> > "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "Bergamot" <bergamot@visi.com> wrote in message
> >> news:5sv7luF1am060U1@mid.individual.net...
> >> > John Doe wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I planned to use jpg or png,
> >> >> both widely used since eons on the web and afaik both bitmap graphic
> >> >> formats ;-)
> >> >
> >> > png could be a vector or bitmap image, though vector images should
> >> > probably be converted to bitmap for web use.
> >>
> >> png can't be a vector image. A rasterisation of a vector image, but not a
> >> vector image.
> >
> > I would have thought Bergamot right?
> >
> > 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.
>
> Not sure what you mean by a vector object or carrier, but generally a
> "vector image" is a series of instructions of lines and curves
> to draw rather than an array of pixels.
>
> Jpeg, PNG and GIF are all arrays of pixels just compressed in different
> ways. I'm pretty sure you can't have vector pngs in that sense.

It seems it is a *native* Fireworks format I am talking about.
See Michael Fesser's succinct way of putting it in another post.

FW is very clever! Illustrator and PS for the web rolled into
one. A truly strange hybrid beast that takes a bit of getting
used to.

--
dorayme

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