AI
AI vector graphicUsed for resolution-independent line art and technical drawings.
- Family
- Vectors
- MIME
- application/postscript
Convert AI to PNG 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 PNG. 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. PNG delivery preserves exact raster samples with optional full alpha and color metadata, but file size, palette reduction, animation absence, and profile handling still vary.
Source material - Illustrator-oriented vector artwork with paths, layers, text, and placed assets. Rendered deliverable - Losslessly encoded pixels with full alpha transparency.
Used for resolution-independent line art and technical drawings.
Designed for lossless images and transparency.
PNG 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.
Inspect transparent edges, gradients, exact dimensions, color, and small text at 100%.
Effects, fonts, linked images, and newer Illustrator features may not survive interchange.
PNG is inefficient for many photographs, and indexed optimization can reduce a smooth palette even without JPEG-style loss.
losslessly encoded pixels with full alpha transparency is what gets written, labeled as image/png. Whether that actually opens depends on the receiving application, not on the file extension.