Sure you could stretch it to fit, but it's going to be so heavily distorted that you won't be able to tell what it is. What I see often is someone wants to take an image that is, say, 5'x7' and resize it to something odd like 2'x24'(banner). Why would anyone want to rasterize a perfectly good vector anyway? Vector prints a lot better. CorelDraw is excellent for creating Banners! Size your page exactly to the size you want your banner to be and start drawing or importing graphics as needed. Create a vector, then export it as a jpg or gif, there's your rasterization.

Nullgod, what is so hard about creating a rastor image in CorelDraw.

RE: Size by pixel : Corel Draw 7 33FWGraphics (TechnicalUser) 20 Nov 01 16:23 Vector data cannot reproduce photo-realistic images, but for other types of images it has two advantages over raster data: it is scaleable without distortion (the 'jaggies' that come with re-sizing a bitmap), and it produces smaller files (generally speaking). Vector data is a collection of geometric shapes that combine to make an image, recorded as mathematical formulas. Meta and vector image formats can both contain vector data. The number of colors that the file can contain is determined by the bits-per-pixel: the more information that is recorded for each pixel, the more shades and hues that the file can contain. Raster format breaks an image into a grid of equally sized pieces, called pixels, and records color information for each pixel.

Resizing a raster image causes pixelation. Resizing a vector image is a piece of cake. If I want to resize or otherwise edit any element of the banner it can easily be done. I prefer to create graphical objects like banners an buttons in a vector base program like Corel Draw, save the original and then export into raster format.

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