Craft Edge

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

firstcut wrote: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.

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