Programmes which handle vector graphics - functions
zoomable art | auto-tracing | manual tracing | pen tool | brush tool | text on a path
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image"Chinese Opera",
from Adobe Illustrator 8,
Sample Art, animation / DKWe saw in chapter 2 how Illustrator handles the perpetual zoom which is the main feature of the bezier curve system. If you like, you can see it again here ->.
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image by Dan Gonzales
from Freehand 7, Sample ArtworkI don't know whether I'm doing something wrong, but I can't get the other programmes to offer that quality: here's FreeHand, for example ...
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Perhaps it is simply an Adobe advantage, since they do mention Illustrator as one of the programmes, along with Photoshop, Premiere and Acrobat, whose recent versions have their own font-smoothing functions independent of the operating system; and Canvas and Microsoft as examples of programmes which do not support smoothed color text at all.
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