Something else: Sheetster provides scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that are super quick and rich.

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It supports both raster and vector graphics, TWAIN devices, color separations, and various photo filters.

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It supports both raster and vector graphics, color separations, various photo filters, and the usual text, paint, and draw functions.

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It found that hackers could exploit weaknesses in the way that Microsoft's browser handles vector graphics to hijack Windows PCs.

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Most importantly, Google is now using vector graphics for its maps, which are scalable and much lighter weight than the traditional stitched together images used in most Google Maps incarnations.

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It loads much more quickly than the old iOS Google Maps app because it uses vector graphics instead of bitmap graphics, and it has turn-by-turn navigation which the old iOS Google Maps app did not have.

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Vector-based graphics based on mathematical lines and points rather than pre-created bitmap graphics, making it quicker to zoom in and out of an area.

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