On Sep 6, 2012 5:17 PM, "~suv" <suv-sf@...16...> wrote:

On 06/09/2012 17:48, Antonio Roberts wrote:

> Is it possible for inkscape, or some other command line utility, to do
> batch tracing of bitmap to svg files? I've seen that through Inkscape
> verbs you can use "SelectionTrace", but that still requires manual
> input.
>
> I've tried potrace, but that only works on black and white images, and
> I've tried autotrace but that only produces jigsaw-like svgs and I
> want ones where the different colours are stacked on top of each other

Inkscape's built-in bitmap tracing tool can't be scripted to be run
without user interaction from the command line or a batch-processing
script (there are no verbs available to control the options and to
execute the tracing).

Maybe the (python-based) command line tool shared in this forum topic
could be of help for you:

[SOLVED] How do I replicate Inkscape's bitmap tracer?
<http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11898>


hth, ~suv