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there is a lot of confusion among
designers surrounding what of file
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formats to use when saving graphic
designs and some designers consider
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certain formats to be King and other
formats to be completely useless the
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truth is there SVG EPS and PDF will have
their time and place they also have pros
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and cons attached to them too so another
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video an SVG refers to scalable vector
graphics and that should suggest to you
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some of the power it has an SVG is a
vector file formats which means it can
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be scaled up to any size or down to any
size and still retain quality now one
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thing to take into account with SVG s is
that they are the standard for a world
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wide web for publishing it is best used
for web based graphic designs it's a
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great format for saving designs that
will predominantly be used on screens
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now each SVG file is based on the XML
which means that all of the information
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regarding the designs color shape line
curves and text is all stored within the
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readable text files
now this subsequently means you can
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technically go in to make edits to your
designs right within the code itself
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really really easily SVG's can be
animated and styled with CSS animations
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that utilize HTML elements can also be
used on SVG elements too and again this
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is another indicator that SVG's are
really great for unscreened designs
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but some things to keep in mind are that
when you save artwork in SVG formats
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mesh objects are rasterized in addition
to this images that have no alpha
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channel are converted to JPEG file
formats images with an alpha channel are
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committed to the PNG formats also SVG
only works with two-dimensional imagery
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so things like photographs that don't
really work with this eye printing with
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SPG's is possible but it's not ideal
most designers who are supplied SVG
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files from clients will tend to open
them in a vector applications such as
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illustrator and then we save them in
either native files fully PS PDF for
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print next we have the PDF file format
which in short means Portable Document
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format PDF is widely seen as the modern
vector graphics standard for print
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design workflow when you say the
designers PDF in Illustrator it also
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saves the design as a file native ai
format inside the PDF file itself which
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is unpleasant later for editing that is
only if you preserve the checkbox in the
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preserve illustrator editing
capabilities when you go to save the PDF
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a PDF format is becoming widely favored
by most designers as it can be
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universally viewed on any computer with
Adobe Acrobat it's also possible to
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preserve illustrates editing
capabilities when saving in this format
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meaning that it can be open to modify it
in some way like an AI file can a PDF is
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one of the main go-to file formats by
printing agencies if not the most widely
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used print file formats
however PDF files do have few drawbacks
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firstly PDFs were made to be shared and
read on different operating systems
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which is of course a great thing but
this makes them difficult to edit
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between differing computers if you're
sending a design to someone for them to
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edit later PDF probably isn't the best
choice for this task
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and lastly we have EPS which stands for
encapsulated PostScript now EPS is the
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legacy of vector graphics standard for
print workflow that means that basically
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is pretty old some designers referred to
EPS as a dinosaur and the discount is
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used completely but the reality is that
many designers and printers still use it
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today for various different reasons
EPS is still very popular for applying
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your artwork to the printer
whereas SVG is primarily used for the
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web some applications such as Inkscape
sketch and so forth cannot write AI
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files but they can write EPS files so
using EPS you're not restricted to only
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using adobe products which is pretty
handy all set of EPS supports
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transparent backgrounds which is handy
when you're utilizing those in your
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designs and also of course as with the
other two formats in today's video ETS
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is a vector-based formats and so you can
scale the design to any size and retain
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quality when printing EPS is very
powerful because it's reliable in the
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sense that you can be sure that whatever
you put into the design is exactly what
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you're going to get in the final output
unfortunately if you use an EPS graphic
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on a non PostScript printer you are
going to get some unpredictable results
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in the print outcome but your EPS is
kind of a dying formats and because it
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uses the encapsulated PostScript you
cannot make use of features that are
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available on PostScript
so in short in to summarize the best
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practices is to reserve SVG for the
web-based graphics that you want to make
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and also for animations PDF is the ideal
format for printing and also for sharing
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files to be viewed but not to be edited
EPS is also great for print and it can
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be read by many different programs but
when sending final designs to clients
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it's probably wise to package at least
these three file formats to the end-user
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so then they can make the decision
themselves on how to use the files for
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