The Rasterbator 1.2 - creates rasterized versions of images - free

hah, my A+ certification class used that when I was in high school. Our teacher was leaving (we blame ourselves, hehe) for warmer climates. He was fun, so we blew up a big picture of him and stuck it on the wall on his last day.

The best part: one of the other students said, "Hey Mr. O! We rasterbated your picture!" and he just froze and staaared for a few seconds. Then he saw the picture.

Side note: I have clicked that "Click Here" TKEP button soooo many times. Class was kinda boring.

In the printing industry, it is also a synonym for "ripping", and can apply to images as well as vector files. For example, if you have a contone image, whether RGB or CMYK, that data is going to be converted to a set of line screens, often expressed as 1-bit TIFFs, and then burned directly to plates. This process is also sometimes called rasterization, because not just the vectors/fonts, but also the bitmap images are getting converted to a line-screen equivalent.