[R-390] Meter Faces on eBay - Update

Tim Shoppa tshoppa at wmata.com
Fri Sep 23 10:58:02 EDT 2005


>  if these had been high-quality images on some of the better
> "sticker" media I've heard about.

Not that I have anything against those who make high-resolution
raster scans of dials, meter faces, etc., for others to use, but
for the ultimate quality these graphics ought to be presented
in a vector rather than bitmap format.  That way you get full
resolution out of whatever media they finally get printed on.

Good vector formats (including PDF, which also supports
raster images) have no problem at all doing arcs, putting
text along a curved baseline, etc.  And it looks wonderful
no matter what resolution you zoom in to, there's no pixellation
in the "vector original" at all.

At my day job I've done some SVG (scalable vector graphics) that looks wonderful at any zoom level.

If I ever get around to making my own artwork for some as-of-yet
hypothetical R-390A meters I'll do it as vector PDF files and
let everybody here know :-).

Tim.


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