Re: what do you use to make icons and similar?
Re: what do you use to make icons and similar?
- Subject: Re: what do you use to make icons and similar?
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:09:27 -0500
On Oct 19, 2008, at 9:32 AM, John Joyce wrote:
It doesn't and it cannot. PDF is only a container, that happens to
support vector art well, but cannot vectorize a raster image. If you
properly placed some vector art into a pdf you might be able to
garner some sort of resolution independence, but it's probably not
worth the effort, and definitely won't look as good in most cases as
well designed/optimized icons.
I will disagree here. It was so worth the effort to move all my
bitmapped images to vector-based artwork. I got beautiful scaling
from 0.5 to 3.0x to include non-integral scaling factors.
In terms of the statement "cannot vectorize a raster image"... Adobe
Illustrator can do such a task.
Until displays approach something like 300dpi or higher, like print
media, our eyes will be better served by icons hand-tooled for
particular sizes.
It all depends upon the artwork. I think you'll find that most
artwork will scale very well if vectorized.
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