VectorMagic

[rmered]

I don't know if anyone's posted anything about this, but this an excellent resource.

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ You need a password, which is freely given by the programmers.

Basically you load a raster file to it.

For instance:

And it vectorises it, and saves it as an eps or svg file.

Which I have opened and saved in Illustrator and it looks like this:

What they're looking for is the feedback to see what we think of it.

And I think it works quite nicely.

[meetthemets]

You can do the same thing with Illustrator.

[Fred T. Jane]

You can do the same thing with Illustrator.

You've got the $400+ to plop down for Illustrator to use Live Trace?

[tBBP]

You can do the same thing with Illustrator.

You've got the $400+ to plop down for Illustrator to use Live Trace?

To add to that...the LiveTrace also isn't 100% accurate. It works good for some things (if the raster image is real clean), but not so well on others. I know this because I use it all the time at my job. It really helps when trying to recreate low-quality logos or images that some bonehead customers swear up and down just looks really good and will reproduce at a bigger size just as clean (WRONG ANSWER?!).

[Hoopskid]

This isn't livetrace.

It explains the difference on their site. It works good.

[kewp80]

I just e-mailed them.

It looks like it works really nice, the lion on the helmet looks a little off with the outline, but no biggy.

[Mac the Knife]

I just e-mailed them as well.

And to you, sir, I owe a debt of gratitude for providing this resource.

[sacker12]

I guess it works okay. Thanks to it, I finally have a vector version of the Braves old Chief Knockahoma logo.

[meetthemets]

You can do the same thing with Illustrator.

You've got the $400+ to plop down for Illustrator to use Live Trace?

Yes

[rmered]

I just e-mailed them as well.

And to you, sir, I owe a debt of gratitude for providing this resource.

No worries.

I guess that's how I see what this place is about.

One person knows one thing, someone else comes across something else.

Together, everybody wins.

And PS re the LiveTrace thing. I have LiveTrace, and this defecates on it.

[patsox]

My first VectorMagic conversion:

Here's another one

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/vctr/vctr_...PA7olMLg6ibut3j

[nwtrailtrekker]

check this out. im loving this.

Before---------and After

[sacker12]

I like this program for the most part. However, I tried to vectorize the raster image of the Braves road script font from Chris's site, and it didn't work all that well.