Re: Re: Advice on designing graphics and mis-information

AHEM --

Macworld and PCWorld have in-depth articles this month on this issue --
I suggest you read them. Bitmaps in and of their nature can be blurry
and can have ragges edges -- this is why vector graphics are preferred
and why there is a push to have a vector format for the web  that can
work, work well and be accepted.

Nuff said

Lisa

--- Charlie Huckel <Jugg(at)mindless.com> wrote:
> There me be some merit to the bit about not always
> printing well, but blurry
> and ragged edges?... I'm thinking you're mistaken.
> 
> 
> "L. J. Durham" <taliesinmedia(at)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Well Ive never seen anyone in a studio or service
> Bureau use bitmaps
> (meaning files with a .bmp extension) for anything
> outside of low-end
> projects.
> 
> .bmp meaning bitmap images as used by windows
> application mainly versus
> the more generic bitmap versus vector image
> classification.
> 
> Most people discourage using that format for
> camera-ready art because
> of the reasons I detailed in earlier post
> 
> If you want blurry graphics with ragged edges that
> dont always print
> well -- enjoy.
> 
> But who am I -----------------
> 
> --- Carol Geary <caroling(at)earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Thanks very much, Paul. This is the kind of
> in-depth
> > info I need. I'm
> > off to the references. I need to find out the
> > details and limitations of
> > Mac TIFF vs. PC TIFF vs. BMPs.
> >
> > Paul Clark wrote:
> > >
> > > The BMP format is NOT low-end. BMP is a
> > > perfectly acceptable image format so long as you
> > don't need greater then 16
> > > million colors and don't mind large file sizes.
> > --
> > Carol Geary,
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~caroling/index.html
> >
> 
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