AI
AI vector graphicUsed for resolution-independent line art and technical drawings.
- Family
- Vectors
- MIME
- application/postscript
Convert AI to JPG online. See the real rasterization at a fixed canvas behavior, preservation limits, and a format-specific acceptance test.
Rasterizing AI fixes every path and shape onto one pixel grid before that canvas is encoded as JPG. Once that happens, scaling the derivative back up cannot recover the original curves. Illustrator input is interpreted as layered vector artwork with clipping, live effects, text, swatches, and placed assets before any page render or interchange export. JPG output is always opaque and lossy, so judge it at high-contrast edges, gradients, fine texture, orientation, and any damage accumulated from repeated encoding.
Source material - Illustrator-oriented vector artwork with paths, layers, text, and placed assets. Rendered deliverable - Lossy JPEG-compressed pixels optimized for photographs and broad compatibility.
Used for resolution-independent line art and technical drawings.
Designed for photos and compact web images.
JPG is right once the destination genuinely needs pixels. Logos, diagrams, or print work that must stay resolution independent still belong in AI.
Open the artwork in a vector editor and inspect fonts, clipping masks, gradients, and linked assets.
View text edges, faces, gradients, and high-contrast detail at the intended display size.
Effects, fonts, linked images, and newer Illustrator features may not survive interchange.
Repeated encoding introduces ringing or blocks, and transparent areas must become opaque.
The writer builds lossy JPEG-compressed pixels optimized for photographs and broad compatibility and labels the result as image/jpeg. The receiving application - Not the extension alone - Is the final compatibility test.