Bill Peel wrote: > Perhaps everyone knows about this already but I have found the free > potrace program very > useful for tracing bitmap line-art into svg format. The resulting svg > file can then be > imported into Inkscape for further manipulation. I have also produced > diagrams using > various LaTeX drawing macro packages in eps format, converted them to > pbm format using > Ghostscript and then to svg using potrace. This could be a way of > converting suitable > public domain clipart from bitmap format into svg format for use with > Inkscape. > > This is a very good suggestion! So good (and so easy to hook up to Inkscape) that we added Potrace to Inkscape this weekend. :) It is in CVS now, in a limited fashion. Just select the image, and choose the "Trace bitmap" menu item. A dialog for adjusting parameters will be added later. But this simple implementation, with a hardcoded 50% brightness threshold seems to work fairly well. Thanks for the idea! Bob