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Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages and Disadvantages

Learn the advantages and disadvantages of the usage of vector images.

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Advantages

Here are the main advantages of vector images:

  • The image format is resolution-independent. It can therefore be rendered at the most suitable resolution whenever it is printed or displayed.
  • Since the text is usually stored as text strings, we can search and extract text from an image.
  • We can edit an image by adding and removing items, changing their size and color, moving them, and so on.
Benefits of vector images
  • We can zoom in on a vector image without losing its details. For example, if a vector image contains a page of small text, we can zoom in to make a single character fill the screen, and the resulting image will be perfectly clear and detailed.
  • We can change the message in a
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