AIR performance for vector graphics

Hello,
I prototyped an app in AS3, and now I want to move it iPhone. When I had came to this forum before a while back (it was called something else; the Flash to iPhone convertor wasn't a part of Adobe AIR), I got scared by the performance issues reported by the users. Therefore, I recently bought a Mac Mini to do iPhone development with the intention of porting it using Cocos2d-X. After going through the APIs and examples, I see that Cocos2d-X is not as good as AS3. My app uses a lot of vector graphics. My apps uses 100+ vector Sprites with different fill effects. I could also apply transformations on them. I've read the performance for the iPhone has improved, but how is the performance for vector graphics?
Thanks.

Does AIR 3 for iPhone use OpenGL ES 2.0 in the backend?
Judging from this http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tech-specs.html they imply they don't.

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Akima spline curves for vector graphics

Akima spline curves give drawing freedom - I can't get bezier
curves to do what I want. It's like Alice in wonderland using a flamingo for a mallet in a game of croquet. unweildly.
Bezier Curves were introduced into Windows NT and all windows NT family products after that.
It soon followed that all paint programs began including Bezier Curves as a drawing method. Big mistake. They should have introduced Akima spline curves into Windows. I am not saying take Bezier
curves out - I am saying Add Akima Spline curves, or the bettered (modified) version of Akima Spline curves that doesn't react as much.
Akima spline curves are cool. just put points along where you want the curve. simple. you just need more points around sharp edges, or you get a "ringing" effect around that area. (See discussion and visuals link).
part of the challenge of using Akima spline curves is that the first 2 data points must be faked or dropped. same goes with the last data point. this can be taken care of with some simple engineering tricks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_(mathematics)
Wikipedia article on Spline curves (mathematics). This does not cover the Akima Spline, which keeps its curve along the data points rather than just near it like a B-spline curve does.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/splines/
demonstration of the various curve types in action. (requires Java) play with the spline curve for a while (delete the existing points other than 0 first to get started)
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BSplineCurveWithKnots/
B-Spline curve with Knots (can be active demo)
GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gslref/InterpolationTypes.html
book - has Akima Spline & Cubic Spline. See also
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Interpolation-Types.html
GNU Manual
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0031-9155/18/4/306
PDF file from medical site on akima and spline methods and its associated errors. Recommendations for fixing the significant overshoot on abrupt changes, and suggestion to use more closely spaced points around those regions. must purchase.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=116810
The Akima Univariate Interpolation Method (spline) article from the acm. by Hiroshi Akima. requires web account and probably money to buy the PDF article.
http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/rottinger/node60.html
Equations for Akima Spline
http://www.alglib.net/interpolation/spline3.php
discussion and visuals of Akima Spline and its drawbacks. also has source code in C++, C#, Delphi, VB6, Zonnon.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TYG-414N645-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1& _fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_us
erid=10&md5=17dccffcfa40e5b420c7c377fc24b5f7
pay-for article on some sort of improved-smoothness spline. Shape of data is preserved.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=1814&objectType=f ile
MATLAB model.

Jim,
Other drawing programs have other spline tools in addition to the ubiquitous Bezier tool.
FreeHand's Bezigon tool draws Beziers, but does so with an interface that lets you just click where you want points on the path, and then auto-conforms the curve points that you place according to where you place the next point, yielding results much like the Java applet you linked to.
Canvas's Auto Curve tool behaves almost exactly like the Java applet.
Although I'm not
opposed to a drawing program having multiple interfaces for creating spline curves, I have no desire for them. I never use the Bezigon tool in FH, and never use the Auto Curve tool in Canvas. I view them both as accommodations to beginners who initially think Bezier tools are unapproachable. I dare say the vast majority of proficient vector illustrators would agree. (No offense intended to any experienced users who find them useful.)
So while I can't say whether Canvas's Auto Curve tool actually uses the Akima equation you seem to be fond of, it's interface and behavior seems identical to what you seem to desire, and in that respect is therefore nothing new to drawing programs.
As far as Illustrator goes, I'd much rather development time be dedicated to far more fundamental and universally important things that it still lacks relative to the other mainstream drawing programs.
Illustrator still has no decent cutting tool. No user-defined drawing scales. No dimension tools. No connector tools. Poor snap behavior. Too limited value entry fields. Excruciating text performance. Bizarre Character and Paragraph style behaviors. No geometric shape primitives. No proper radius/chamfer/fillet feature. No joining of multiple paths at once. An old-fashioned modal-dialog-heavy and poorly-organized and too-cluttered interface. The list is quite long; and on
my list (for whatever it's worth), alternate interfaces for interactively drawing spline curves point-by-point does not even appear.
The Bezier curve is inherent to PostScript drawing programs, and the conventional click-or-clickdrag interface for them is practically universal. It is fluid, accurate, supple, and economical in the number of points it creates. It dominates for good reason. (That's not to say AI's particular
implementation of it couldn't be better; it could. FreeHand's is better.)
So while I'm all for truly valuable "new wrinkles," this is one I don't see any practical need for.
What actual benefit do you see in it?
JET

Feature request - Akima spline curves for vector graphics

Akima spline curves give drawing freedom, at least some kind
of interpolating spline curve where you can just simply lay the
points down and the curve follows along the points - I can't get
bezier curves to do what I want. It's like
Alice in wonderland using a flamingo for a mallet in a game
of croquet. unweildly.
Bezier Curves were introduced into Windows NT and all windows
NT family products after that. It
soon followed that all paint programs began including Bezier
Curves as a drawing method. Big
mistake. They should have introduced Akima spline curves into
Windows. I am not saying take
Bezier curves out - I am saying Add Akima Spline curves, or
the bettered (modified) version of
Akima Spline curves that doesn't react as much. At least some
type of interpolating spline curve
where you just lay the points down and the curve follows the
points.
Akima spline curves are cool. just put points along where you
want the curve. simple. you just
need more points around sharp edges, or you get a "ringing"
effect around that area. (See
discussion and visuals link).
part of the challenge of using Akima spline curves is that
the first 2 data points must be faked
or dropped. same goes with the last data point. this can be
taken care of with some simple
engineering tricks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_(mathematics)
Wikipedia article on Spline curves (mathematics). This does
not cover the Akima Spline, which
keeps its curve along the data points rather than just near
it like a B-spline curve does.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/splines/
demonstration of the various curve types in action. (requires
Java) play with the spline curve for
a while (delete the existing points other than 0 first to get
started)
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BSplineCurveWithKnots/
B-Spline curve with Knots (can be active demo)
GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gslref/InterpolationTypes.html
book - has Akima Spline & Cubic Spline. See also
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Interpolation-Types.html
GNU Manual
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0031-9155/18/4/306
PDF file from medical site on akima and spline methods and
its associated errors. Recommendations
for fixing the significant overshoot on abrupt changes, and
suggestion to use more closely spaced
points around those regions. must purchase.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=116810
The Akima Univariate Interpolation Method (spline) article
from the acm. by Hiroshi Akima.
requires web account and probably money to buy the PDF
article.
http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/rottinger/node60.html
Equations for Akima Spline
http://www.alglib.net/interpolation/spline3.phpdiscussion
and visuals of Akima Spline and its
drawbacks. also has source code in C++, C#, Delphi, VB6,
Zonnon.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TYG-414N645-
2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersi on=0&_us
erid=10&md5=17dccffcfa40e5b420c7c377fc24b5f7
pay-for article on some sort of improved-smoothness spline.
Shape of data is preserved.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=1814&objectType=f ile
MATLAB model.

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Use Raphael Vector Graphics Library in Adobe AIR

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To the Adobe AIR Team: It would be tremendously helpful and will be much appreciated if you can create a sample Adobe AIR application using Raphael.
~Oscar

Hi again jackson@mja.
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It's the Mac book air good for graphic design and video editing ?

I'm into graphic design for clothing logos etc. and I'm a photographer my question is, is the Mac book air good for these things?

ideally a 15" would be best for same, as referring to the 15" macbook Pro.
For a photographer, which I used to be long ago, either the Air or Pro are close in form factor for travel with only one moving part, and SSD.
The retina display in combination with the 15" would be idea as best choice for photo editing and graphic design.
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features-retina/

Using a vector graphic for a button

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Encore CS5, everything is patched, Windows 7 64-bit
I have been reading various posts, and either not seeing or not understanding something about using a vector graphic as a button on a menu.
I drew a one-color shape in Illustrator, saved it as EPS and PNG and used it in a menu designed in Photoshop. When I preview it in Encore or burn a DVD, the graphic looks awful. And I'd like to use highlighting with it so it changes color when selected but that is another problem....
To start the menu, I used the Photoshop preset NTSC DV Widescreen which has a pixel aspect ratio of 1.21. Then I added background graphics and so on. Each button is contained in a layer group named (+)PlayAll, etc. In each layer group is a text layer that doesn't have a prefix (e.g., Play All) and another layer with the vector or PNG named (=1)kv, which is the name of the EPS or PNG file.
The behavior is fine. The graphic moves to indicate which menu item is selected, the text is constant, never changes.
In Photoshop, the graphic looks fine but when I preview it in Encore it looks crappy and pixelated. What do I do?

Part of the problem is I have no idea what some of these terms mean ... "2-bit indexed", ... The first one might mean an object that has one color,
It is not the same as one color, and yes, it probably means more than any of us intend. See Encore help regarding button subpictures, in particular the part regarding using Photoshop to create button subpictures.
The latter includes "(Technically, the subpicture overlay is a two‑bit indexed image.)," but you don't need to understand the technical meaning (they don't explain it anyway). You do need to understand the liimitations they explain there, For example, under "solid colors only," they say "Elements on these layers must use solid colors and sharp edges. Use one solid color per layer. Do not use gradients, feathering, or anti-aliasing on the subpicture layers. Color gradations are not possible in subpictures."
"sub-picture highlight" ... the second one is probably made up.
Heh, heh. Searching that in Encore help (which I often find lacking) finds the page on Button Subpictures. I agree that some of the terms, whether they are from the DVD specs or Sonic's applications (on which Encore is based), can make it difficult to look things up.
"vector layer".... I searched Photoshop help for "vector layer" and got nothing. There is such a thing as a vector mask on a layer but I have no clue what a vector layer is.
You're correct - vector mask. Within a button group, the vector mask will be part of a layer, so I think of it as the button group "vector mask" layer. That's part of why I pointed to using a library menu and editing in photoshop so you could compare what you have to what a template looks like.
Please suggest which Encore library menu I can try. I opened a couple and couldn't figure out how they worked.
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Jeff Bellune's book (he's a moderator here) is still very applicable. While some things have change, the basics haven't.
But, hey, Jeff. Why haven't you updated your book yet? Inquiring minds want to know!

Macbook Air 13inch for Graphic / Web Design ?

Hi guys, I decided to come here to ask for some expert help if i should buy the macbook air or pro. But before that, let me tell you what I usually do.
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In my old pc when I open like 10 browser windows, it slows down , and having a hard time when editing a project with 300 dpi on lets say a 20 x 20 inch canvas. My old pc still runs but a few times in a year, I get it repaired or I replace the memory ram or something.
This is my current computer setup which I bought last 2006 >
Windows XP SP 2
Pentium 4 2.66 ghz
1.5GHZ DDR SDR1 ram
nvidia geforce fx 5500 256mb
40gb harddisk
Based on what Ive mentioned.
1.) Comparing my old 2006 pc to the air, will it give me x 2 or x 3 speed on the things that I need ?
2.) Air doesn't have a LAN port, i connect my pc through LAN, but if I use wifi, will my net speed be slower ?
3.) There are rumors that there will be an air update this summer, to include the sandy bridge processors, should I wait for this ?
Thanks , hoping to hear your thoughts.

PC vs MBAir would be like comparing apples to windo.. err orange.
But regardless, there will be a very noticeable difference in speed when you upgrade your Pentium 4 to the MBA.
To put it in perspective, my MBAir 2010 seems to run faster than my Lenovo T410s core I5 CPU and both have SSDs and both have 4GB ram. Both models came out last year.
Wifi is usually slower than LAN. But I dont see any noticeable difference in speed using LAN vs wifi unless you transfer large files within your network. Your internet connection will usually be the bottleneck (when uploading/downloading files off of the internet) and is usually slower than your wifi (wireless G around 50ish Mbps vs 3Mbps DSL - with upload speeds being much slower).
I'd say if you need the upgrade, get it. If you'd rather wait, that's fine too - You'd just be stuck with your old equipment for several months waiting for the new model. (Or... you can wait until the new model is out, and buy the old model for MUCH cheaper price :D)

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From memory, this didn't use to happen in my previous working environment (Acrobat 8 Pro with Word 2003, using artwork exported from CorelDRAW 12).
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Transparency Flattening is being invoked.
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I did try google. But could not get a solution. Any idea what is the doc flavor for .drw file.?
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Macbook Air right for an engineering major?

I'm currently a Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering double major at UC Davis, and I wanted some input on whether or not a Macbook Air would be suitable for my needs. The 13" 2013 unit with the Haswell CPU is only $999 on Amazon right now and I figured it is priced so competetively with other ultrabooks now that I can actually consider it.
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Sure, I will be doing some software design, but the ULV i5 is plenty powerful. I'm not doing some insane rendering or anything. Just some very basic rendering and programming.
So I have 3 questions:
1. Is a Macbook Air right for an Engineering major? How has having a Macbook "changed" you as an engineer?
2. Is there any way to have a Windows Partition, an OSX Partition, and an exFAT partition to share my music and videos across both OS's? Both Windows and OSX can read and write to exFAT right?
3. What external hard drive and USB drive formats (other than FAT since I have files larger than 4GB) are best for transferring files to and from OSX and Windows machines?
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I second the above opinion, as I am an Electrical Engineering student currently. I've been using an 11" Air for everything (full options, i7, 8gb, 512ssd). I was using a mid 2011 and i just got the new 2013 model and I have to say both have performed outstanding.
Since you're gonna be an engineer i'll tell you how I run my machine to let you know how powerful it is for school:
I run 4 desktops that i swipe between constantly with 10+ programs running, most of which are not your normal small programs (Autocad, MotionBuilder, etc.)
My 5th desktop that i swipe between is Parallels Desktop running windows 7 for the non-mac apps, inside of windows i typically run 3+ programs which include AutoCad, Quartus (electronic modeling) and PSpice.
Keep in mind that I run all of this at the same time and it's probably too much (I don't need to run everything at once I just love to keep evrything up so between classes I don't have to prepare for the next).
All I have to say is the machine kills it. i'm serious, no lag, fluid autocad building, low heat, and great battery, i got about 5 hours out of my 2011 model and i expect to see 8+ out of this one when school gets going again.
You're in the right direction, i think you'll be more than happy with a new Macbook Air if you max out the options, and then you'll increase the resale so in 2-3 years you can grab the latest and greatest as i did.
Good luck in engineering and don't let it get to you, stick it out and it'll be worthwhile!

Vector graphics with Photoshop Elements 13

How can I maintain the vector graphics that are saved for Illustrator (AI or EPS) in Photoshop Element 13. There are a lot of free typography graphics for Illustrator that I would love to use in Photoshop Elements 13
Mireille

if you downloaded both the exe and 7z files to the same directory, double click the exe.

How to copy and paste vector graphics

I have a program that draws curves and I would like to copy and paste them as a path into Adobe Photoshop.
I am using the Clipboard class (Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard()), but I
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string that describes my curves in PostScript.
But that didn't even work for pasting into Adobe Illustrator, although Illustrator is capable of opening
a PostScript file. (However Photoshop only opens a PostScript file as a bitmap, not as a path.)
With Illustrator, instead of pasting the curves, it just pasted the PostScript text.
Please help.
Thanks.

For me, freehep is the fifth hit when googling "java vector graphics library". But of course I don't get to "[Access hidden information|http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html]" without paying up :).
For a simpler way: since you already say you can save to postscript, make a temporary ps file and export it in a file list (keywords "java drag and drop files"). Perhaps Illustrator then opens the file and the user can copy/paste it there. Otherwise you have to figure out what Illustrator expects on the clipboard and put it there in the same format.
Another option might be to use some com wrapper to talk to Illustrator directly (but probably need a commercial com wrapper for that).

Replacing bitmap text with vector graphic text

In a layout for an ebook I have some important black and white bitmap illustrations in tiff., 300 dpi. These have appeared ok on print, but on screen, reading the same pdf-file, they´re unacceptable, especially some texts in fontsize 5-6 pt are unclear. People tell me I have to convert the drawings, or at least the texts, to vector graphics.
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You are right, there are no layers, some geometric shapes with texts in and around. It´s possible to mark or lassoe the bits of text, since spaces were made in the figures for the texts. And then delete them, and then insert new ones. That will be in another layer, I guess, but from that point I don´t know what to do :-)

Novice: Can I add vector graphics to a pdf?

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I'm starting my education on other capabilities.
Can I add vector graphics (shapes, text) to a pdf or do I need to get the pdf into a tool like AI first?
We're going to be working with maps (GIS output) and, to start, I'm assuming we'll want the maps as pdfs. In some cases we'll want to add some markup.
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As PDF is, essentially, a "non-editable" format (aside from minor touchups) you'll want to work content in an authoring application.
Output a PDF, containing the vector graphics, from an authoring application.
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Be well...

Reduce file size vector graphics

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I rather use vector as much as possible. For a banner for examle, I've imported vector images of trees. I couldn't get it below 40 kb so I exported all illustrator files to png files which helped. Can detailed vector images be optimized just as much? Or is it better to use bitmap files when it comes to more detailed graphics? Does it matter if it is a vector images made in flash or a imported vector file even if both have the same number of paths?
Any other ideas I might try besides the things I've already tried?

There is a certain threshold when a bitmap can actually be smaller than a detailed vector graphic. Especially when working on small image sizes, bitmaps can often be quite smaller.
For a vector graphic, you can't do more than reducing the number of vertexes which may result in a poorer graphic.
With bitmaps, you can do a lot more:
Keep in mind that bitmaps with an alpha channel use up much more memory than bitmaps without alpha information. So try to reach your goal without using transparent bitmaps - which seems hard in the beginning, but as Flash provides different blending modes, you can, for example use the blending mode "multiply" for a black logo on a white background with just a grayscale bitmap instead of a bitmap with alpha channel information.
The same is valid for a white logo on a black background: Use the "add" blending mode instead, then.
I have also written some Photoshop Plugins to reduce the alpha-channel bit-resolution which sometimes gives me the extra 3-4kb I needed. Instead of using 256 shades of alpha, it reduces them to maybe 8 or 16. Alpha-Channels are comressed like GIF/PNG images inside of flash, so having as few different shades of alpha as possible will make images smaller. I even use dithering sometimes for softer alpha areas.
In some rare cases, you can also gain some bytes if you convert text to vector graphics (pressing CTRL-B twice), but this only works when there's not much text at all. That's because the metric information for text glyphs take up a bit more space then just the shapes. So you can imagine that this may only work if there is just one text element with all different letters. So you won't get much size reduction by converting "abracadabra". But you will get some reduction if you convert "the quick brown fox jumps" into shapes.
This all can help if you have restrictions like 30kb or even 20kb to create a full animated flash banner.

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