Editing Vector graphics (section)

=== Printing ===
Vector art is ideal for [[printing]] since the art is made from a series of mathematical curves; it will print very crisply even when resized.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olypress.com/vector-vs-raster-graphics-in-printing/ |title=Vector & Raster Graphics in Offset Printing |date=December 6, 2013 |publisher=Olympus Press |access-date=2014-06-16 |archive-date=February 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212111440/http://www.olypress.com/vector-vs-raster-graphics-in-printing/ |url-status=live }}</ref> For instance, one can print a vector logo on a small sheet of copy paper, and then enlarge the same vector logo to [[Billboard (advertising)|billboard]] size and keep the same crisp quality. A low-resolution [[raster graphic]] would blur or [[Pixelization|pixelate]] excessively if it were enlarged from business card size to billboard size. (The precise resolution of a raster graphic necessary for high-quality results depends on the viewing distance; e.g., a billboard may still appear to be of high quality even at low resolution if the viewing distance is great enough.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unix.eng.ua.edu/MathWorks/manuals/techdoc/creating_plots/chprin30.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140206130749/http://unix.eng.ua.edu/MathWorks/manuals/techdoc/creating_plots/chprin30.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 6, 2014 |title=Printing and Exporting (Graphics) |publisher=COE Unix Network |date=2002-06-18 |access-date=2014-06-16 }}</ref>

If we regard typographic characters as images, then the same considerations that we have made for graphics apply even to the composition of written text for printing ([[typesetting]]). Older character sets were stored as bitmaps. Therefore, to achieve maximum print quality they had to be used at a given resolution only; these font formats are said to be non-scalable. High-quality typography is nowadays based on character drawings ([[font]]s) which are typically stored as vector graphics, and as such are scalable to any size. Examples of these vector formats for characters are [[Postscript fonts]] and [[TrueType fonts]].