Potrace (64 bit) for Windows

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• Neat tool, and the only one of its kind that I know of!

  chilipepper987January 4, 2015

  Pros

  Traces raster images to vector images Runs on the command line! Comes with a tool to run an edging filter on the source, to generate a grayscale map more suitable for tracing Easily integrated into scripts using ImageMagick

  Cons

  Can't trace color out of the box! A GUI app that will do that is Inkscape. A dedicated scripter wrote his own app around potrace that will trace color: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=44911

  Summary

  Does exactly what I need: trace a raster image to a vector on the command line, for batch/scripted jobs. Generates eps, svg, and a few other formats, to be further manipulated with imagemagick. Running some noise reduction with image magick on the grayscale map before tracing can work wonders! Goes without saying, but: This is a COMMAND LINE application. You invoke it by calling it from the command line in an existing command prompt window. This program, like almost any other windows command line program, will do absolutely nothing if opened on its own without being invoked with arguments.

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• POS Garbage

  Michaelk9988April 5, 2014

  Pros

  There are no pros. I wasted time downloading, and at minimum, probably polluted my registry. If this review screen would let me enter zero stars, I would.

  Cons

  Doesn't run. Just opens a command line window and sits there.

  Summary

  POS Garbage

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