Comment Re:Bitmap to Vector (Score 1) 109
It was my first thought, too. Xara (Xtreme/X1/X/Studio/Artworks) has a similar function. Not sure whether it's in the Xara XL Linux beta.
As with the other suggestions: trace the image (with a fairly large colour threshold, and possibly quite a lot of smoothing and de-noising), then select the whole result and give it a finite line width (depends on the size of the image, but not "thin") and no fill colour. The benefit of the tracing route is that - because the result is a vector - you can make a nice smooth outline from a pretty low res image. It might be a bit "hairy", though - you may have to clean up the result a bit (if you want to look at it closely; a thick line might hide the problems).
HTH.
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Fluppeteer
As with the other suggestions: trace the image (with a fairly large colour threshold, and possibly quite a lot of smoothing and de-noising), then select the whole result and give it a finite line width (depends on the size of the image, but not "thin") and no fill colour. The benefit of the tracing route is that - because the result is a vector - you can make a nice smooth outline from a pretty low res image. It might be a bit "hairy", though - you may have to clean up the result a bit (if you want to look at it closely; a thick line might hide the problems).
HTH.
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Fluppeteer
