Hi ho, hi ho, and away we go... I made a logo for a company. It was a png, though I also had a gif form just for sh*tz-n-giggles. The guy building the site keeps resizing the image (this is a header banner thing which should stretch across the page, or across the content depending on what resolution he finally settles on). Being a raster, it looks like total crap every time he resizes it. I thought, foo, I'm tired of pixel-cleaning. I'll just make a vector version; he can resize it all he wants then, right? Other than Inkscape, which I suck at, I have Flash at my disposal. The guy building the site's got a bunch of Adobe things, so I imported my png (actually all the little layers, a tablecloth background, the letters, a tomato) and reassembled those pieces in Flash as a vector. Made a Symbol. Then exported, and tried a few different file formats. .ai (adobe Illustrator) made the image look dark. We settled on .eps and that seemed fine. But after getting the sizes he wanted to try, he re-rastered them. For some reason, the rastered versions have a white aliasing-looking border mostly no wider than 1 pixel. Which sucks as the background is a red gradient. The letters stick out of the tabelcloth background and hang in transparency, so the letters look really bad-- if this was just a box I would just have the white layer paint-bucketed red. But to clean the thing up takes just as much time as cleaning up transformed rasters so foo. I'm just going to let him dick around with sizes until he finds the one he wants, then clean that one up, but I really want to know WHY there's an outline when a vector was changed into a raster. It mattered not which sort of raster-- png, gif, jpgs all did it (jpg was only tried to see, bad format for this graphic).