Potrace

Potrace is an open-source vectorizer (English tracer ), which converts raster to vector graphics. Potrace is developed by Peter Selinger and is dual- licensed: under the GPL and as Potrace Professional in a proprietary license of Selinger company Icosasoft software.

Frontends

There are various graphical front-end for the command line program Potrace, it is for example in the free vector graphics editor Inkscape under the menu item Path - Trace Bitmap integrated. Even the free font editor FontForge can Potrace use to import bitmap graphics.

Output images

Potrace dominated many output formats, including PostScript, PDF and SVG.

The output of Potrace is black and white, color images are converted when reading to black and white images before they are vectorized. Nevertheless, Inkscape allows you to vectorize colored or grayscale images by each color channel is vectorized as a single black -and-white image of Potrace separately.

Vectorized 2006 Potrace in Inkscape SVG to an eight- color image (50 KB)

Vectorized 2012 with newer Potrace in Inkscape SVG to an eight- color image ( 336 KB)

Vectorized 2012 with newer Potrace in Inkscape to a twelve colored SVG image (608 KB)

Vectorized 2012 with newer Potrace in Inkscape SVG to a 16- color image ( 743 KB)

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