What is Bitmap Tracing?

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sammybee
May 20, 2004
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Hi all-

I’ve heard the term bitmap tracing. What is that? When would you use it? Thanks

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hot_denim
May 20, 2004
Turing pixel image into a vector scalable image. So that when resized will not have jagged lines etc..or blockynesss. But detail is lost in this process. e.g. THE font on your screen and all the different font sizes are e.g. a vector graphic font. I.e. scalable to different font sizes with out blockyness. There representation is not due to a crid of pixel values, rather mathamatical relationships.

Vector graphics usually take much disk less space than bitmap equivelents..
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Gene Palmiter
May 20, 2004
I just used CorelTrace a few minutes ago. I download a Gif of a flag from the internet…72 ppi. I needed 2-300 ppi. Options were: resampling but that would get blurry, Genuine Fractals…never tried it for this…might work…a bit of an overkill though, CorelTrace…designed exactly to do just this very thing…it does it…it did it…and its done.

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Turing pixel image into a vector scalable image. So that when resized will
not have jagged lines etc..or blockynesss. But detail is lost in this process. e.g. THE font on your screen and all the different font sizes are
e.g. a vector graphic font. I.e. scalable to different font sizes with out
blockyness. There representation is not due to a crid of pixel values, rather mathamatical relationships.
Vector graphics usually take much disk less space than bitmap
equivelents..
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Colin_Walls
May 20, 2004
Adobe Streamline is a tool for doing this.
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Pierre_Courtejoie
May 20, 2004
Or Mathias action… for the automatic vector tracing Phosphor "Vectorize —A Quick Tutorial (by Mathias and Pierre)" 4/16/04 1:05am </cgi-bin/webx?50>

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