Programmes which handle vector graphics - functions

zoomable art | auto-tracing | manual tracing | pen tool | brush tool | text on a path

Then I discovered there is a programme called, imaginatively enough, Autotrace.

It's a freeware by one Martin Weber, and its ambition is

"... the development of a freely available application with a functionality similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline. I hope that it will become better than all commercially available programs. In some aspects it is already better."

Martin gives some remarkable comparisons of conversions by the various programmes: in the first example shows that his programme is the only one of four which gives a usable result, the second shows many more points in ScanFont's result, which will increase the file size. Clicking on these thumbnails will bring you to the full versions, and the site's main page is here.

results from ScanFont and Martin Weber's Autotrace