Bitmap Tracer Blues

[ernie-f]

Having played a bit more, both tracers seem to produce comparable levels of accuracy in their raw output relative to the original source image…

Hi Xhris,
I dont agree with You. The poor quality output of Xara's tracer is not comparable to Potracer's output and is unacceptable for me as a professional graphic designer and printer..



You can see how jiggy the trace from Xara is.
I don't know when Xara build in the tracer but potrace was written by Peter Selinger and the initial release was 2001. More information about potrace you can find here: http://potrace.sourceforge.net/

I attached an other example of a tracing job I got often to do. To trace a handdrawn logo from a customer like this one is a job for a tracer. Not so good idea to redraw it into Xara.
Feel free to play arround with it. Maybe You got better results in Xara then my but I don't think You got a better result then with Inkscape/Potrace.

Servus Ernie