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.
Thanks
Bill Peel
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Bill Peel wrote:
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:22:32 +0100 From: Bill Peel <w.peel@...212...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-user] Producing SVG input for Inkscape
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
Delineate might also be of interest, it is a graphical application that uses both potrace and autotrace as backends http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
Autotrace http://tech9.net/rml/log/2004082501
PoTrace http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ http://advogato.org/proj/OpenClipArt.org/
Quoth Bill Peel on or about 2004-08-26:
various LaTeX drawing macro packages in eps format, converted them to pbm format using
I found that pstoedit works well from EPS -- you don't need to rasterize the image. Unfortunately pstoedit has no SVG output driver, so I went via fig (another vector format).
pstoedit -f fig 1-10.eps 1-10.fig fig2dev -L svg 1-10.fig > 1-10.svg
This technique also preserves text elements as text.
-trent
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