Photoshop "Smart Object" is it Vector?

I got a problem when scaling them or in PDF.

[damlag]

Hey,

I've made some shapes in Photoshop CS2. It was a design for a ticket. I saved some time by putting those shapes into Smart objects. I thought that a smart object is like a vector. But it seems it's not.

Now when I zoom the design in PDF, I get blurry edges of those shapes.

I tried to play with it now and it's the same thing.

I make 2 identical shapes in PS2. I turn one layer into New Smart Object and save as PDF.

When I scale PDF, the normal PS shape doesn't lose quality, but the Smart Object one gets blurry.

Why is that? Now I need to redising the whole ticket design.

[limbo]

As you say, smart objects are rasterised. They call them smart as they are non destructive - so you can warp, skew, transform etc objects and always have the original instance of the object to revert to...