Frontline A GUI frontend to Autotrace by Masatake Yamato. For example, there is a centerline switch that is especially usefull for tracing roads (in maps) or font characters. Autotrace has some features not available in the embedded Potrace dialog in Inkscape. While not optimal for photos, it does good job on line art and poster-like images. That means you can convert bitmap images (like scans) to vector graphics.
You don't need to run it separately.Īlternatives to Potrace (Autotrace and Frontline) Autotrace An open source vectorization program by Martin Weber.
Perl module and set of scripts to help in adding and processing metadata in SVG files. It will complain about sodipodi or inkscape namespaced items in the document, unless you've exported to plain SVG.