01-25-2020, 10:29 PM
i would like to know if any of you guys know of any command line tool that can convert colour bitmap images to vector images. I'm talking about PNG image to SVG image format.
a friend asked me to find out. so far i have tried sotrace. but that is only good for gray-scale/black and white pictures. one can convert jpg to uncompressed png pretty easy using convert from imagemagick. but that colour png input yields a b/w output from sotrace.
oh. i also tried using sotrace and imagemagick under termux in Android. it works.
a friend asked me to find out. so far i have tried sotrace. but that is only good for gray-scale/black and white pictures. one can convert jpg to uncompressed png pretty easy using convert from imagemagick. but that colour png input yields a b/w output from sotrace.
oh. i also tried using sotrace and imagemagick under termux in Android. it works.


you are right in that SVG defines families of points using functions and that really helps with its small size and zoom ability / adaptability. But not all collection of points can be generated using suitable concise generating functions yet. so bitmap style info of every pixel representation is supported in SVG too. using single point zero area curves.