RE: text clarity?

It could well be true.
For example Macromedia Fireworks is a 'paint'
program, however it saves text as re-editable
vector style objects, and effects applied to
the text change dynamically when the text is edited.

I guess they are sort of hybrid programs.

This always editable feature is only present in
the native (*.png) file format though. Once you
export to gif, etc the 'vectorness' is lost.

I would imagine that the latest Photopaint is
arranged in the same way. Once someone has
made this a standard feature it becomes an essential
for any others to have too, esp. for web work where
so many graphics are simply text.


Peter Williams
LAN Support/Webmaster
williams(at)hendersons.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Keith
> Cc: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: text clarity?
>
> Just wanted to clear up something Rob.  It is true that Corel PhotoPaint
> creates its own cpt file that will allow re-editing of individual
> objects at
> a later date.  From what I understand (and correct me if I am wrong),
> PhotoPaint is a raster-based program, meaning that it cannot save anything
> in a vector based format.  Corel Xara, on the other hand IS a vector based
> program.

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