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Bitmaps are BAD mmm kay
Authored by: silicontrip on Aug 16, '05 12:48:33AM

From memory Visio is a vector based drawing app of sorts?

PDFs support vector based images. So saving to a bitmap file will destroy all the vector based information which would normally be present in the PDF.

It is possible to load PDFs into certain programs and continue to edit them as vector based images. Doing what you describe would prevent this.

Someone mentioned a method to print to a postscript file, then convert the postscript to a PDF. I've used this method for years converting proprietry MS documents into files that can be edited by other operating systems.

Actually, pretty much every machine I've used in the last 15 years had the ability to print to postscript. It's been very useful to know these steps.



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