"tracing" bitmaps to produce PostScript

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From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1991 07:39

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I've heard that some programs (Adobe Illustrator?) let you display a bitmap on
the screen and then lay down a spline over it, and to produce a PostScript
representation of draw that spline, letting you convert a bitmap to a smaller
and more manipulable format.

This is a great idea; except that I don't have any toy computers. :-)  Is there
a program that will let me do this under X11?

		-- Jamie <jwz@lucid.com>

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Subject: "tracing" bitmaps to produce PostScript
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