[CLUE-Tech] Scalable Vector Graphics on Linux?

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 21:52, mgushee at havenrock.com wrote:
> Sure. The GIMP, as you surely know, is primarily for bitmap graphics 
> (AKA "paintings"), and Sketch is mainly for vector graphics (AKA 
> "drawings") ... though I suppose the distinction is less important 
> than it used to be.

No, it's still important.  Vector graphics can scale indefinitely up
(and pretty much down, to a point) without loss of detail.  You can't do
that with raster images.  Lots of poster art is done in vector so it can
be done in small scale on the computer, then sized up for printing.  To
do the same poster art in raster you have to start with a very large
image, and that requires lots of memory and disk space - and a very fast
computer.

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