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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

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.
>
>Thanks!
>
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>
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I think the programs that will allow you to do this will require a significant
amount of user intervention.  You can use Tracer, available on sonata, which
attempt to follow curves, or you can use Adobe Illustrator's autotrace
feature to do small cuts of the Beziers in question.  The final option is
to load the image into your favorate drawing app, magnify it as much as 
possible, and then hand-draw to individual curves.  I think you will find the
latter yeilds the best results.

David L. Leon
dleon@seas.smu.edu

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