At 2:15 AM -0700 on 11/10/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It is imprecise. Try to adjust a vectorial drawing by one pixel. Try. And
>watch me laugh ... and scream...
This is a flaw in the programs, not the representation. But I do it easily,
in, say, ClarisWorks. I'll turn off the grid, and use the left arrow.
>
>The _only advantages of vectorial drawing are:
>1) lower storage capacity - which is solved with gif and jpeg
>2) easy transformation (shrink/grow) - which has also been solved, at least in
>2d
Bitmaps can't be easily enlarged -- they get blocky or blury, not matter
what you do.
>b) bit maps are fare more precise both in drawing and in placing. Try to draw
>a vectorial line exactly n-pixels from another vectorial object. Try.
easily done. Your tools may make it hard, but a vector drawing is defined
in terms of pixels [endpoints and shape, that is]!
>So... if we could have a drawing editor oriented towards the bitmap drawing
>programs listed above rather than _any vectorial system I would be much
>happier (though I admit vectorial works -sort of- for placing buttons and
>fields. It is still imprecise, i.e. one pixel realignments are simply
>painful).
Not if you had the arrow keys to use, as you do in ClarisWorks. I confess I
often wind up trying the arrow keys in HyperCard :(
Please don't confuse matters of interface and of format.
