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What Really Happens to Your Vector Data When You Change File Formats

What Really Happens to Your Vector Data When You Change File Formats

A file format conversion isn't a neutral pass-through. Every format represents geometry, text, and metadata using its own internal rules, and converting between them means translating from one rule set to another. Translation is where data gets dropped, not because software is careless, but because the source format sometimes describes something the target format has…

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Vector Fill is built to work hand-in-hand with autotraced images

canvasxdraw How-To Series, Episode 6: The Vector Fill Tool 

This episode, the Vector GFX team shows you the Vector Fill tool,  a faster way to color different objects inside canvasxdraw, and one of the tools that pairs most naturally with Autotrace.  What You'll Learn  Vector Fill is built to work hand-in-hand with autotraced images, so if you haven't watched Episode 2 on the Autotrace tool yet, it's worth a quick look first this episode…

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canvasxdraw How-To Series, Episode 4: Using Colors

canvasxdraw How-To Series, Episode 4: Using Colors 

We've covered symbols, autotrace, and text tools. This episode builds on your custom color palette (created in the Color Presets window) and shows you how to actually apply those colors to both rasterized images and vector objects.  What You'll Learn  Rasterized images, like a JPEG, are made of pixels with soft, pixelated edges. Vector objects, like an SVG, have sharp, calculated edges.…

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Text Tools Instructional Video

How-To Series, Episode 3: Working with Text Tools 

So far we've covered building your Symbol Library and using Autotrace to turn images into vectors. This episode is all about text — placing it, styling it, running it along a path, and organizing it into tables.  What You'll Learn:  canvasxdraw's text tools will feel familiar if you've used other authoring software, but they come with the same precision and flexibility canvasxdraw applies to everything…

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