Re: Preferred vector art file format?
Re: Preferred vector art file format?
- Subject: Re: Preferred vector art file format?
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:09:47 -0700
On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 10:12 AM, Ken Tabb wrote:
Hi,
I'm starting development of a vector drawing app in Cocoa/Quartz, and
would like to know what the 'preferred' file format for vector art is in
Mac OS X... like TIFFs are for bitmaps, and PICTs were under OS 9 and
earlier.
I'm thinking that PDF must be the way to go, but don't know how editable
that would make the resulting files (in terms of re-opening the files
for
later editing). Clearly it would be great from a point of view of
document portability (i.e. everyone can open PDFs). Or would EPS be a
'better' solution?
Well, PDF is *portable*, but not particularly editable. Unfortunately,
Mac OS doesn't have any intrinsic support for any of the common CAD
formats. You might find SVG usable (basically, it's the postscript
drawing model expressed in XML).
-jcr
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with
a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.