Hi,

After i made some art here, i downloaded it to my computer and put the “.png” after it.
When i went to open it in several different softwares, including the default picture viewer for Windows 7, it says that it's an unsupported file type.

What should i do? Is there a way to fix this?

Try making it a GIF.

Hmmm… interesting. Are you trying to export a bitmap image or a vector image? They both have very different image extensions then the other, so you'll have to be careful about that.

With regards,

ErnieParke

ErnieParke wrote:

Hmmm… interesting. Are you trying to export a bitmap image or a vector image? They both have very different image extensions then the other, so you'll have to be careful about that.

With regards,

ErnieParke

It's vector. Does that tell you what I am doing wrong?

CAA14 wrote:

ErnieParke wrote:

Hmmm… interesting. Are you trying to export a bitmap image or a vector image? They both have very different image extensions then the other, so you'll have to be careful about that.

With regards,

ErnieParke

It's vector. Does that tell you what I am doing wrong?

Yes, I was even guessing that this was the issue because you wouldn't be getting the error otherwise.

Well, the issue here is that .png, .jpg, and most image formats you will find are all bitmap formats. Taking a vector image and slapping “.png” onto it's end won't change the fact that it's not bitmap and will never be a bitmap image. Windows Viewer detects that, and since Vector isn't a supported image format, it can't open it. That's why you're getting the error that you are. You'll have to be careful; although vector is supported here on Scratch and on web browsers, it isn't supported much anywhere else, or at least that what I guess.

Still, there's good news. There are several image editors that support vector images, and so you could try using those, but I haven't used them before, and so I can't really say what you can/can't do with them. Still, they might help.

With regards,

ErnieParke

ErnieParke wrote:

CAA14 wrote:

ErnieParke wrote:

Hmmm… interesting. Are you trying to export a bitmap image or a vector image? They both have very different image extensions then the other, so you'll have to be careful about that.

With regards,

ErnieParke

It's vector. Does that tell you what I am doing wrong?

Yes, I was even guessing that this was the issue because you wouldn't be getting the error otherwise.

Well, the issue here is that .png, .jpg, and most image formats you will find are all bitmap formats. Taking a vector image and slapping “.png” onto it's end won't change the fact that it's not bitmap and will never be a bitmap image. Windows Viewer detects that, and since Vector isn't a supported image format, it can't open it. That's why you're getting the error that you are. You'll have to be careful; although vector is supported here on Scratch and on web browsers, it isn't supported much anywhere else, or at least that what I guess.

Still, there's good news. There are several image editors that support vector images, and so you could try using those, but I haven't used them before, and so I can't really say what you can/can't do with them. Still, they might help.

With regards,

ErnieParke

Well, what extension is there that's Vector? I mean, i seen vector images open before.

Vector is usually svg.

I don't think Scratch exports svg though.

CAA14 wrote:

ErnieParke wrote:

CAA14 wrote:

ErnieParke wrote:

Hmmm… interesting. Are you trying to export a bitmap image or a vector image? They both have very different image extensions then the other, so you'll have to be careful about that.

With regards,

ErnieParke

It's vector. Does that tell you what I am doing wrong?

Yes, I was even guessing that this was the issue because you wouldn't be getting the error otherwise.

Well, the issue here is that .png, .jpg, and most image formats you will find are all bitmap formats. Taking a vector image and slapping “.png” onto it's end won't change the fact that it's not bitmap and will never be a bitmap image. Windows Viewer detects that, and since Vector isn't a supported image format, it can't open it. That's why you're getting the error that you are. You'll have to be careful; although vector is supported here on Scratch and on web browsers, it isn't supported much anywhere else, or at least that what I guess.

Still, there's good news. There are several image editors that support vector images, and so you could try using those, but I haven't used them before, and so I can't really say what you can/can't do with them. Still, they might help.

With regards,

ErnieParke

Well, what extension is there that's Vector? I mean, i seen vector images open before.

I believe .svg, though I'm not 100% sure, and Scratch might store it in something else.

With regards,

ErnieParke

Thanks.

Hmm… Still doesn't work at all. What's the use of being able to download your art to a local file, only to not be able to open it?

CAA14 wrote:

Hmm… Still doesn't work at all. What's the use of being able to download your art to a local file, only to not be able to open it?

Well, that's what happened with Scratch 1.4 sprites. You can only open them in Scratch, and I think the same thing might be happening here. I'm not sure what the use would be, but maybe something can be clobbered together someday.

With regards,

ErnieParke

ErnieParke wrote:

CAA14 wrote:

Hmm… Still doesn't work at all. What's the use of being able to download your art to a local file, only to not be able to open it?

Well, that's what happened with Scratch 1.4 sprites. You can only open them in Scratch, and I think the same thing might be happening here. I'm not sure what the use would be, but maybe something can be clobbered together someday.

With regards,

ErnieParke

I certainly hope so

To: The scratch team:

Is it possible or already in your plans to make the images made from y'all's graphic editor compatible with everything else, or, make them export to normal pictures?

This would be great, as this is the only editor that's simple and i am comfortable with.