Online bitmapped to SVG conversion

[ebstauffer]

I saw the post earlier about Vectormagic and thought I'd share this with you. I've used it numerous time in the past.

http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/autotrace/tracer.pl

[Soraya]

Sorry to bother, but i one of the people who know nothing about computers and even less about this software. Could you expand a bit on its powers as I coudln't understand what the site says.

thanks.

soraya

[Momof2ShihTzus]

If I am not mistaking.... the new Auto Trace features in SCAL2 will do most of these things for you automatically!

[Johane]

I tried both ROIT and Sure Cuts A Lot for an SVG conversion for the same Mickey Mouse Picture. ROIT worked better in that you could ungroup the picture by colour. SCAL only traced the picture.

[firstcut]

eb,
Thanks for sharing this. I am always looking for online SVG tools for the Inkscape-intimidated. Very interesting indeed. Has some options, such as centerline tracing, that Inkscape doesn't have either. Will be fun to play with.

[firstcut]

When I tried this I got a .svgz file, which SCAL1 could not read so I still had to take it into Inkscape or Illustrator. Does SCAL2 open .svgz files or is there some way to get uncompressed SVGs from this site?

[Sweetness4713]

When I tried this I got a .svgz file, which SCAL1 could not read so I still had to take it into Inkscape or Illustrator. Does SCAL2 open .svgz files or is there some way to get uncompressed SVGs from this site?

I tried with SCAL 2 and yes it does open it but the image is a little rough edged... I opened the same image in svg in SCAL 2 and it was a smoother edge.

[firstcut]

Thanks for that info, Sweetness. Not what I would have expected.