potrace Reviews and details

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• Can you help a CLI & SD novice?

  I'm trying to use this "SD > Vector image" model. (linked here) To do so, I must have "potrace" installed. (linked here). Source: 9 months ago

• Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups

  As the author mentions PNG to SVG conversion, there is Potrace [1]. I think you need to convert to BMP before. It's a pretty nice tool. I have used it a couple of times. [1] https://potrace.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Anyone knows about a good PNG to SVG API?

  The answer to your question is Potrace. There's probably a wrapper API available for whatever language you're using (presumably Python), or you can simply run it as a command line tool. Potrace is used behind the scenes for image tracing in Inkscape, the most popular open source vector design app, and I've also seen it used in a plugin someone built for Stable Diffusion/A1111 that does exactly what you're trying... Source: 10 months ago

• Advice

  This is generally rather computationally expensive, but I believe you are looking for potrace. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is it just me or does the clownfish wallpaper look a bit low quality?

  For fairly simple art, you could try potrace: http://potrace.sourceforge.net. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What are some useful cli tools that arent popular?

  Potrace - transforms a binary image into a smooth, scalable vector graphic. Source: almost 2 years ago

• [D] Anti-aliasing techniques or functions for segmentation masks

  One trick I use is to annotate images with SVG masks, or to convert bitmap masks into SVG with a tool like potrace. This way, I have more control in how the mask is rasterized. For example, for biological cellular segmentation, I will throw in a third class, “center”, that I computationally generate in the raster pipe (find the weighted center of a closed shape, add a small circle scaled to shape that is labeled... Source: almost 2 years ago

• I cut out something, how do I get it smooth? Thank you for the help.

  When I don't want to start Inkscape, which I confess I don't really master, I often use a small command line executable named [potrace](http://potrace.sourceforge.net/). The source is easy to compile, but they also provide a great number of precompiled versions –even for Commodore Amiga– including one for Mac OS X 64-bit. Source: about 2 years ago

• remt 0.10.0 released

  If you are referring to my guess on what the built-in pdf export is doing, no, I was thinking of potrace: http://potrace.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Vector Magic: Automatically convert PNG/Clipart to clean vector lines

  For what it’s worth, the free tool potrace has done well for me, at least for black and white. Source: over 2 years ago

• Need help converting images to svg

  Somebody on another forum suggested potrace. Source: almost 3 years ago

• This is my one line ape drawing I post from time to time to remind new apes to hold the line

  Connected the ends of your line and filled the interior with black and the exterior with white. Used potrace to trace the boundary (your original line) as SVG—just a bunch of cubic Bézier curves—and I wrote a small program to read this SVG file and spit out equations in a form that can just be pasted into Desmos. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Essential SVG tools

  There are many bitmap to vector tracers like potrace, autotrace etc. Imagetracer is the most promising for web developers and has a few tricks up it's sleeve. Handy to have on the CLI too:. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• How to convert PNG image to SVG in command line without GUI?

  There is no way to automate tracing with Inkscape itself, but you can try Potrace, which Inkscape's 'Trace Bitmap' functionality is based on. Source: about 3 years ago