On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Karen wrote:
As to graphing , I agree with John that it all needs to be done with vector graphics for the reasons he stated and came to that conclusion a couple of years ago. I have been thinking about it for a long time and hope to be able to get to that in a few months. IIRC your graphing stuff was raster.
There is nothing wrong with raster graphics, as long as the Graphing Libraries can handle rendering at larger (more detailed) scales.
Yes, many publications would prefer vector graphics for the reasons stated. However, modern charts use Drop Shadow effects, Blurs, Transparency and Gradients which can make for some very troublesome (and large) vector files, or would have raster-bound elements. Even Illustrator CS2 EPS files with these effects can have unpredictable results on all but the most modern RIPs.
So if a REALbasic graphing utility could export bitmap pictures at decent resolutions, the publications would not object to that. The only real issue that I see is that REALbasic cannot save a Picture in TIFF CMYK which is what most publications would require... and would require the utility to have an additional post-processing step.
So then we are back to the subject of having a Canvas with a "Scale" feature, eh? =)
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