[clue-tech] gimp fonts for [printed] graphics

[Matt Gushee]

Jed S. Baer wrote:

> Jeff Cann wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is photoshop a vector program?  Other people I know use it for CMYK. 
>>Just curious.
> 
> AFAIK, it's a raster program. Isn't Illustrator Adobe's vector drawing
> package?

Yes, and yes. But that's not directly related to CMYK support. The 
reason why vector graphics are generally preferable to raster is that 
they will scale to any resolution and print equally well. Whereas raster 
graphics, for the best results, have to be designed at the output 
resolution. Which means (a) if you create an image and then want to do 
something different with it, like printing at a different resolution, 
you lose quality when you scale it; and (b) doing large graphics for 
print requires a %#&@*()load of memory.

Furthermore, you can usually import raster graphics into vector, but not 
vice versa.

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA