Posted by dorayme on 12/21/07 00:57

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way, in my originally made FW files that are saved (*not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

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dorayme

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