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luxxx
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Hi,
I'm extremely new to this great filter.
I've been playing around a bit with it, but cannot figure out the following: if it is possible to somehow render a vector image, or equally save the result as a vector based image.

I'm afraid this cannot be done, huh? smile:cry:

Thx a lot
Lucas
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Vladimir Golovin
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No, Filter Forge cannot output vectors -- it renders bitmap images only.
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luxxx
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Ok...I see.
Thanks for your answer.

By the way, could that be a possible development for future versions? What do you think

Lucas
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uberzev
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Vector output would be sweet.
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BLUEFROG

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Y'know it's funny how raster is all the rage, all the time but vector has brief periods of popularity!

As an Illustrator user who often creates very textural vector effects, I can tell you from experience that, while undoubtedly cool, a vector file of all but the simplest of these filters would cause app-crashingly, RIP-crunchingly, hair-pullingly huge files. Postscript is a brilliant but VERY verbose language and the number of paths and points needed to express a single "fractalized" line is intimidating. (And PDF, while better than its parent Postscript in ways, would far no better at this.)

Not to dismiss the brilliance of the FF crew, but they would have to rewrite the PS specifications to make this happen!

Jim
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CFandM
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BLUEFROG wrote:
vector file of all but the simplest of these filters would cause app-crashingly, RIP-crunchingly, hair-pullingly huge files


Yep, it would even make the fastest of machines crawl. Try to edit a couple of points
in the middle of over two hundred thousand.

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BLUEFROG wrote:
Not to dismiss the brilliance of the FF crew, but they would have to rewrite the PS specifications to make this happen!


This is what I was also thinking about in that other post.
Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times!
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