Chapter 23. Flash and SVG Support

Animation on the Web

The most common file formats for the Web (discussed in Chapter 22, “Saving Images for the Web”) have their individual strengths and weaknesses, but they all have one common weakness. JPEG, GIF, and PNG are all raster formats. Raster art, defined later in this chapter and discussed in Chapter 18, “Raster Images and Rasterized Objects,” changes appearance as it is altered in size. Flash and SVG formats, on the other hand, rely on vector art, which can be scaled to virtually any size without ...

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