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Re: 2 bit TIFF -> Bezier ??

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From: Michael Slade
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:41
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jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory) writes:

>In article <1992Aug11.215852.8477@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good)  
>writes:
>>
>>is there a program out there that can transform a Black and White TIFF image  
>>into a Bezier image?  I've converted it into EPS, but it just did the same old  
>>bitmap (as far as I know).  I'm wanting to have it "get rid of the edges" so  
>to  
>>speak...  smooth things out.
>>

>Yes. Its called Adobe Illustrator.  (Some other programs can to do it as well,  
>but Illustrator is the only one I know of for the NeXT.) The conversion you  
>want is non-trivial, and is best used in a interactive editing type enviroment,  
>where you can "fix up" the computers best guesses at edge detection.

>--J Gregory
Adobe also has a great app on PC & Mac (I wish they'd port to NeXT) called
Streamline.  It is a more advanced version of the autotracing available
in Illustrator.
-- Michael Slade, Datavision
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Subject: Re: 2 bit TIFF -> Bezier ??
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