Posted by Nik Coughlin on 12/21/07 05:25

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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.

Fireworks saves the vector data into the png metadata. It's not part of the
png standard. You could save vector data into mp3 using metadata. The png
format itself doesn't support vectors.

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