Images can either be embedded within an HTML page or viewed separately as a full-page graphic. FIGleaf supports a multitude of filetypes, many of which have never had the possibility of being viewed by a web browser without the help of an external helper application.
Vector graphics allow image scaling without true loss in the image's integrity.
By storing graphical information as mathematical entities such as ellipses, rectangles, lines, and polylines, a user can view a vector graphic in any size and not lose the overall quality of the image. You can zoom into an image and not be subject to the image fuzzies or zoom out of an image and not be subject to the image jaggies that frequently occur with modification of the size of a raster-based image. However, as with the CMX Viewer, FIGleaf offers no tools for users to create their own CGM images. Overall, while the FIGleaf viewer does give users capabilities never before available on the web, at this stage, users will likely be left with the impression that the results are not quite as spectacular as hoped for.