Sep 17, 2019 Download Potrace for free. Transforms bitmaps into vector graphics. Potrace is a tool for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. A typical use is to create SVG or PDF files from scanned data. Potrace is an open source tool for converting bitmap images or raster to vector drawings. Even though Potrace is only a command line tool - its output is of the highest quality. It supports the most common vector output formats: EPS, PostScript, PDF.
The following tables contain general and technical information about a number of raster-to-vector conversion software products. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
General information[edit]
This table gives basic general information about the different vector graphics editors:
| Creator | Released | Latest version | List price (USD) | License | Supported OS (without emulation) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CorelDRAW | Corel | 1989 | 2020 | $449, $169 upgrade | Proprietary | Windows |
| Easy Trace | Easy Trace Group | 2015 | 12.0 | 960 €, 480 € upgrade, Version 7.99 and 8.65 free | Proprietary | Windows |
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Systems | 1985 | 24.1.0 (CC2020) | $19.99 per month | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | GraphicPowers.com | 2016 | release 5 | $15 per month/ $120 per year | Proprietary | Windows, macOS due fall 2017 |
| Inkscape (using Potrace) | Inkscape.org | 2003 | 0.92.5 1.0RC1 | free | GPL | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| ImageTracer | András Jankovics | 2015 | 1.2.6 (2020) | free | Public domain | Cross-platform , JavaScript or Java based |
| Potrace | Peter Selinger | 2001 | 1.16 (Sep. 2019) | free | GPL | Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS/AROS |
| Scan2CAD | Avia Systems | 1997 | v10.1 | $49 - $149 /month | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| WinTopo Freeware | SoftSoft Ltd | 1999 | 2015 (v1.76) | free | Freeware | Windows |
| WinTopo Pro | SoftSoft Ltd | 2000 | 2015 (v3.6) | $299 | Proprietary | Windows |
| Xara Photo & Graphic Designer | Xara Group Ltd. | 1994 | 2018 (v16) | $89.99 | Proprietary | Windows |
| Super Vectorizer | Effectmatrix Ltd. | 2013 | 2016 (v1.6.6) | $29.99 | Proprietary | macOS |
| AutoTrace | Martin Weber | 1998 | 2002 (v0.31.1) | free | GPL | Linux |
| Creator | Released | Latest version | List price (USD) | License | Supported OS (without emulation) |
Basic features[edit]
| NAME | Maximum zoom | Object limit per document | Control point limit | Color management for print | Thumbnails | Adjust Image (functions) | Text Recognition (OCR) | Scripting support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | 12800x | No Limit | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | No limit | No limit | No limit | No | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| Illustrator | 640x | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| Potrace | N/A | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | No |
| ImageTracer[1] | N/A | No limit | No limit | No | No | ? | No | Yes |
| Scan2CAD | 64K | No limit | No limit | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro[2] | 512x | No limit | No limit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Maximum zoom | Object limit per document | Control point limit | Color management for print | Thumbnails | adjust image (functions) | Text Recognition (OCR) | Scripting support |
AutoCAD features[edit]
| NAME | Export universal DXF | inside AutoCAD application available | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Illustrator | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Potrace | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| ImageTracer | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scan2CAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Export universal DXF | inside AutoCAD application available | Curve recognition | Circle recognition | Arc recognition | Orthogonal line detection | Corner detection | Line connection |
Raster editing features[edit]
| Scanner support | Freehand sketch | Raster filters | Change color depth | Image resize | Rotate | Crop | Raster shapes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | Yes | Yes | No | N/A |
| Illustrator | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Potrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| ImageTracer | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Scan2CAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinTopo Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| AutoTrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Scanner Support | Freehand sketch | Raster Filters | Change color depth | Image resize | Rotate | Crop | Raster Shapes |
Potrace For Mac Catalina
Vector editing features[edit]
| Fills & hatch | Vector combine | Rotate & move | Polylines | Spline curves | Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa | Vector shapes | Font ID & replace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Trace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Graphic Tracer Professional | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Illustrator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Potrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | No |
| ImageTracer | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | No |
| Scan2CAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| WinTopo Pro | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No |
| AutoTrace | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | No |
| Fills & hatch | Vector combine | Rotate & move | Polylines | Spline curves | Lines to curves cmd. & vice versa | Vector shapes |
Free software[edit]
- Inkscape – conversion and creation tool (uses Potrace for raster-to-vector conversion)
- librsvg – library used in GNOME, rsvg-convert, rsvg-view, and MediaWiki
- Potrace – cross-platform utility for tracing a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image
- ImageTracer – Public Domain cross-platform raster image to SVG tracing in JavaScript or Java[3]
Proprietary software[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Graphical software. |
- Graphic Tracer Professional
- WinTopo Freeware - Free to use for any purpose including commercial[4]
- WinTopo Pro
Discontinued software[edit]
- Magic Tracer[citation needed]
- Xara Xtreme for Linux – 2006 open source fork of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer
References[edit]
Potrace For Mac Mini
- ^https://github.com/jankovicsandras
- ^http://www.wintopo.com/features.htm
- ^https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerjs/blob/master/LICENSE
- ^http://www.wintopo.com/faq.htm
Potrace For Macbook Air
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