Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/20/07 23:34

dorayme wrote:
> 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.
>

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.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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