- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 19:19:42 -0800
- To: <www-html@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
Clive Bruton wrote: >Peter Flynn wrote at 28/11/97 2:34 pm > >>EPS is not necessarily vector-based, it can contain bitmaps too. > >I think that's an additional advantage, rather than a disadvantage, how >else could you have bitmaps with clipping paths? I believe CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) supports clipping paths. It certainly can use bitmaps as texture fill, which is basically the same thing. A CGM can contain vector graphics (e.g., polylines, ellipses, NURBS), raster graphics (e.g., tile array), and text.[1] Postscript is a page description language; an EPS file is actually an interpreted program. CGM is a graphics file format. CGM files require less processing overhead to display. They also require less bandwidth to move around. I did a comparison of image formats as exports from CorelDRAW!. A simple logo was 1.5k bytes as a CGM file. It was 24k as an EPS. David Perrell [1] http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lsr/cgm_std.htm
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